there are definitely passages in the scriptures that suggest socialism is not compatible with our faith.
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go on....
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note: "capitalism" as understood (i.e. an interest-on-loans based economy) likely is not as well
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anyway, Paul in the NT notes that each person must work for their own bread (1) and in the OT the Teacher states that a man's own hunger is what keeps him from sloth, he works to feed himself. This makes UBI philosophically out of joint with the whole tradition.
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UBI is the idea that 'everyone deserves necessities" whereas the tradition states that everyone should work for their bread. That doesn't mean that those incapable of providing bread or lacking resources should be left to die (personal charity is strongly emphasized.)
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the underlying thought behind this is that God provides for the rich and poor, good and evil alike, but he requires them to work for it (note the curse placed upon Adam.) Those who do not work for their bread (those who are ridiculously prosperous) fall into ruin.
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UBI therefore is the concept of placing everyone (in theory) in the place of the outrageously rich - not needing to work for their bread. The tradition would state that this is a recipe for their ruin, at least at the hands of sloth, if not other things which it invites in.
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'But if there is God ... then we should be afraid of nothing and spare nothing. And then the man who madly dissipates his own life and fortunes, and the lives and fortunes of others, is more right than the calculating philosophers who vainly seek to regulate mankind on earth.'
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whose?
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