ON THE BASIS OF GOD GIVEN FREE WILL (AGENCY); WE AFFIRM THE BASIS OF OUR LEAP OF FAITH: (1) THAT ONLY THE NON-EXISTENT CREATOR GOD IS AND NOTHING ELSE; (2) THAT THE SOUL OF MAN IS A THOUGHT OF GOD; (3) THAT JESUS CHRIST CAME TO EARTH IN THE FLESH, WAS BAPTIZED, WAS NAILED TO A TREE AND WAS RESURRECTED; (4) AND THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE MEDIUM FOR THE RECONCILIATION BETWEEN MAN AND THE NON-EXISTENT CREATOR GOD. (5) INSPIRED BY THE APOSTOLIC NEW TESTAMENT WE ASSUME THE SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE CHRISTIAN WORKING CLASS.
"And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves." — Matthew 21: 12–13
"Then Jesus said to His disciples: Truly I tell you, it is difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” — Matthew 19: 23–24
Christian Syndicalism is a political faith. The basis for the Social Revolutionary spirit inherent to Christian Syndicalism is found in the dissident Marxist interpretation of the The Social Justice Canon. The ideal of Christianity is Mercy. The Social Ethics of Christianity are contained in the Beatitudes and other social justice teachings of the Jesus Movement found in both "canonical" and "apocryphal" New Testament texts. Biblical texts are deuterocanonical inspiration - not law. Jesus Christ liberated man from the law. The ideal of Anarchism is Pure Freedom. Christian Syndicalism is the synthesis of Faith and Freedom. Social Justice and Personal Freedom are not mutually exclusive, they complement each other. Freedom can not exist in an ethical vacuum or in the absence of Social Justice. Detention, Deportation, Anti-LGBTQ Hate, Drug Trafficking, Unfair Trade, Economic Exploitation (extraction of surplus value, taxation of income) of the Working Class and War are violent social injustices. For Freedom to exist these social injustices must be eradicated through organised non-violent civil disobedience, strikes, demonstrations, occupations, direct political action, and even legal challenges.
Ethics implies a cost but Justice demands it. Sacrifice (obliteration of the self) is necessary to achieve Social Justice and Freedom. As Thomas Müntzer explained, it is necessary for a person to experience spiritual and physical suffering in order to come to a true Christian belief. The social-political context of Democratic Freedom is necessary for the exercise of God given Free Will. Christian Syndicalism stands for the Free exercise of God given Free Will informed by Beatific Ethics. The fundamental problem of atheistic anarchism is that it has no external spiritual-ethical reference point. Freedom cannot exist in an ethical vacuum without becoming a variant of nihilism (negative anarchy). Negative Anarchy (nihilism) is the domain of Lucifer. In rejecting Nihilism and Negative Anarchy the Christian Syndicalist positively rejects the influence of Lucifer.
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Christian Syndicalism is the synthesis of Christian Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism. The premise of secular anarcho-syndicalism is the voluntary association of cooperative groups as basis for the social organisation of labour and the technical organisation of production on an ecologically sustainable basis. The goal of Christian Syndicalism is the Freedom to work and pray in a democratic, socially just and ecologically sustainable environment liberated from State Power (Caesar). The State Power (Caesar) being organised bodies of armed men under the command of faceless technocratic bureaucracies and the electronic surveillance police state that assists them. Christian Syndicalism differs from Anarcho-Syndicalism in that it rejects Marxist Materialism in favor of Faith in The Social Justice Canon. Commitment to Social Justice does not require adherence to Political Leftism. This does not mean that Christian Syndicalists disregard the Marxist critique of Capitalism. Christian Syndicalism seeks both the Social and Spiritual Liberation of the Christian Worker through the General Mass Strike and the Revolutionary Revival.
Christian Syndicalism is inspired by the movements of the Radical Reformation. The Czech Taborites radical denunciation of corruption in the Roman Catholic Church and subsequent rejection of medieval Canon Law; The English Levellers demands for popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law, and religious tolerance, as expressed in the manifesto "Agreement of the People"; The movement led by German preacher and theologian Thomas Müntzer whose revolutionary opposition to both Luther and the Roman Catholic Church inspired the German peasant and plebeian uprising of 1525.
The goal of social revolutionary Christian Syndicalism in our times is to struggle for the achievement of a polity that guarantees freedom to work and pray in context of an ecologically sustainable political and economic democracy; free from war, drug abuse, abortion and deportation.
The Christian Syndicalist Collective.
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(1) Notes on The Radical Reformation
*(The views expressed elsewhere in this weblog by Miguel Angel Torres, Emmanuel Goldstein or James Coburn are not necessarily those of all members of the Christian Syndicalist Collective.)
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"Now the men of Sodom were WICKED, great SINNERS against the LORD"- Genesis 13:13
ReplyDeleteIf you don't understand why God categorized the people of Sodom as extremely wicked and great sinners, you might be misunderstanding the essence of the religion of Christ and the philosophy of God.
According to Psalm 10:2-18, the WICKED are those who take advantage of the poor, and who also oppress the helpless. According to Proverbs 1:10-19, SINNERS are those who through violence acquired the wealth of the innocent. Ezekiel 16:49 said God destroyed Sodom because they neglected the poor, and the needy. You can see that the WICKED and SINNERS are economic oppressors, and I guarantee you they perfectly fit our economic system. Woe to us people of Sodom!
Jesus said “hardly shall the rich man enter into the kingdom of God”...Because the rich oppress the poor and God doesn’t forgive that.
ReplyDeleteChristians don’t know how strongly God feels about the poor; God promised to kill those who oppress the strangers, the fatherless and the widows by the sword. (Exodus 22:21-24)
Blessed are the poor, for yours is the kingdom; and woe to the rich.
“Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest & profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor” - Proverbs 28:8
“Hardly will the rich enter into the kingdom”.
So the rich must be anti-God: blamed for poverty, injustice and misery in the world.
It is easier for a Carmel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a Capitalist to do the will of God. For him profits supersedes all of humanity.
In wisdom books of Job, Psalms and Proverbs; the rich are known as the wicked; who enrich themselves by injustice and oppression.
Jesus said, blessed are the poor, and in the same breath He said, woe to the rich. Judgment awaits the rich for forsaking the poor.
Jesus said, blessed are you that are hungry now and woe to those who are full. Judgement awaits those who are full for not sharing.
Our economic system is antithetical to the law, capitalism is opposed to the Prophets, and the free market is hostile to Christ !