Jay Richards
Author of Money, Greed, and God: How Capitalism Is the Solution, Not The Problem" and Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute
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"The fruits of socialism couldn't be worse. In fact, there's no political ideology that's ever killed more people
than the socialist experiment. And so, from a Christian perspective, just from a generically moral perspective,
the idea that socialism ought to have some kind of promise for redeeming human beings or helping us, it's absurd.
Just look at the record."
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Kay Arthur
Author, Bible teacher, and Founder of Precept
Ministries
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Answering whether the early church in Jerusalem,
which had "all things in common," is an example of
socialism.
"This is not communism, this is not socialism, this
is Christianity. This is caring for one another. And
it’s not the government controlling it; it is the
Spirit of God within me, directing me to be led of
God's Spirit to help the body of Christ, and not
only to help the body of Christ, but to help
others."
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Charles Colson
Prison Fellowship Founder
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“When you depart from the Bible and you … come up
with your own humanistic understanding — whether you
call it Marxism or Freudianism or any of the isms
which all lie in the ash heap of history at the
moment — what you’re doing is leading people into
tyranny.”
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Wendy Wright
President, Concerned Women for America
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"The Bible teaches charity, that each one of us are
to give. And sadly, the politicians that promote
socialism do it as if they're the ones being kind.
But really, they're spending other people's money in
their kindness."
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Dr. Del Tackett
Host of Cross Examine (A new TV program
from Coral Ridge Ministries)
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"An economic free enterprise system is the engine of
society, and when we begin to pull the spark plugs
out of it through regulation and taxation, well,
there's only one thing that's going to happen, that
engine will begin to sputter."
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David Horowitz
Former communist and author of Radical Son
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"Everybody on the left actually believes that it's
social institutions that are the problem, not
people. And people are really good and they want to
get along with each other, but it’s capitalism that
divides them; private property makes them racists
and exploiters. Nonsense, people do that."
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Marvin Olasky
Former communist, Provost of The King's College,
and Editor-in-chief of World Magazine
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"Socialism does a horrible job of helping the poor.
It usually leaves the poor much worse off than they
were before. And we now have the advantage the
people a century ago did not have of actually seeing
socialist systems in operation. Socialist systems
utterly failed in the Soviet Union and in Eastern
Europe."
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Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr.
Co-author of Personal Faith, Public Policy
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"I don't believe that the Bible teaches socialism. I
think that that is a mental construct that folks
have tried to superimpose on the Bible."
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Steve Forbes
President and Chief Executive Officer of Forbes,
author of How Capitalism Will Save Us
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"Government socialism manifestly does not work. If
it did, the Soviet Union would’ve won the Cold War."
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Joshua Muravchik
Author of Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall
of Socialism
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"Socialism has kind of proved itself to be bankrupt,
but it’s not dying out in the intellectual world."
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Dr. Richard Land
President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty
Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention
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"The Bible teaches that we are to care for our
neighbor, we're to be compassionate to our neighbor,
but it's one thing for you to give out of compassion
to someone who's less fortunate. It’s an entirely
different thing for the government to confiscate
your property and give it to someone else."
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Dr. Albert Mohler, Jr.
President of the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary
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"If you talk about socialism, the problem is that
it's really making an economic system do what only
the Gospel of Christ can do. And no economic system
can deliver on those promises."
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David Noebel
Founder and President of Summit Ministries,
author of Understanding the Times
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"The death toll of the whole 20th century is
basically [based on] a socialistic experiment.
Nazism was socialistic, fascism was socialistic,
communism was socialistic, and those three alone
were [responsible] for the death toll into tens of
millions."
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Kai Chen
Native of China and former member of the Chinese
National Basketball team
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"Communism does not just physically destroy people.
Surely they do. They destroy 80 million people under
Mao—80 million people perished in peacetime because
of starvation, persecution, murder, all that. They
destroy your soul."
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Joseph Farah
Founder of WorldNetDaily.com
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"Karl Marx, as a human, as a real life historical
figure, was a monster by any standard you want to
measure it. I don't think anybody watching this
program, if they understood his life, could come to
any other conclusion."
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