I didn't get very far into the video to find a pretty serious breach with Biblical teachings:
"For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ." -- 1 Corinthians 12:12
The whole chapter speaks in very simple terms how all of Christians belong to one community, and how Christians self-identify as parts within that community ... this is where we get such gems as can the eye say to the foot I have no need of thee ... well, the answer is no ... each one of us, Jew or Gentile, needs everyone else ...
I understand this is from the writings of Paul the Apostle, and not of God the Father, the Son, nor Holy Spirit ... but still, calling Paul a member of the contemporary radical left seems a bit awkward ... individualism is divisive, and separates the various parts of the Christian body ... and basic human nature "I'm better than him, I deserve more" ... instead of "We're better than them, how can we help?" (first person plural intended) ... ...
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Is the lust for power confined to the Left? ... I understand the lust for power is an evil in all ways ... but this lust spans the entire political spectrum ... I would even go far as to say the existence of this political spectrum is founded on lust for power ... why be a member of the XYZ Party if not to increase the party's power? ...
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Odd ... you know the servants didn't get to keep the talons, right?, the earned their master's joy ... I don't know if you've been a servant before, but that's a big deal for servants ... and notice both the servant that earned the 5 talons and the servant that earned only 2 talons were equally rewarded, and we can assume that the servant who earned just one talon would also have been rewarded ... alas, that servant was lazy and didn't do anything, so no reward ...
The Left wants everybody to get a reward, whether they earn it or not ... from a poster with a single "trophy point" ...
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Disagree, agree and agree ... nice video, I enjoyed it ... you've put a lot of thought into the content and I appreciate your sharing ... I hope you return here to discuss the precepts you've brought up here ...
We live in a kingdom ... not a democracy ... that which man creates is flawed and without God ... [sigh] ... only Satan could write the US tax code ...
Thank you for your thoughtful reply. Collectivism is a subject that I did not have the time to thoroughly explore in this video, so there are some nuances there. I absolutely believe we should live in collectives (in fact, over the past few decades we haven't been doing this nearly enough) and I believe group identities are important and God-given, but to say that someone's group identity is more important than the individual aspects about them, including how they view God, is a mistake.
"but still, calling Paul a member of the contemporary radical left seems a bit awkward" Even if Paul did support collectivism, that would not make him a member of the radical left. I never said these beliefs are exclusive to the radical left. Collectivism in the middle east has led to endless tribal warfare for thousands of years, but I would never consider these tribalistic groups to be members of the left. I would consider someone a member of the left when they agree with all three of the beliefs that I list in the video to at least a large extent.
"Is the lust for power confined to the Left?" I do not believe lust for power is confined to the left; this is a basic problem of humanity beacause of the fall. My statment was that for the leftist power is all that they see. This is also where I make a distinction between liberals who are concerned with truth and leftists who are influenced by postmodernism which denies the existence of truth. If truth does not exist, and all we have are narratives, it is the person with the most power who's narrative is pushed forward. My problem is that leftism feeds our lust for power by viewing the world purely in terms of power. Not that our lust for power needs feeding- even without leftism, that sin will still be there.
As far as the parable, I agree with everything you said. My point still stands that the one with the five talents is not morally worse than the servant with one talent, purely by virtue of possessing more. This is the crux of where I see leftism going wrong- it assumes you are morally to blame simply if you have more.
"Disagree, agree and agree ... nice video, I enjoyed it ... you've put a lot of thought into the content and I appreciate your sharing ... I hope you return here to discuss the precepts you've brought up here ..." Thank you for your feedback, and I'm glad you replied to check me. It is important to me that if I get something wrong that I become aware of it so I won't repeat it.