Re: Eberhard Arnold on Socialism

What we need today – and what none of us has yet attained – is a simple 
disciple****p of Jesus that responds to the longing of the present but goes

beyond spiritually edifying experiences.


Bruderhof News wrote:

> Bruderhof wrote:
> 
>> It is not possible to equate a life in Christ, lived by grace, with 
>> political socialism. On the other hand I feel strongly that many of
>> the demands of conscience raised by socialists are born of the same
>> longings that animated people in the time of John the Baptist…
>> 
> 
> 
> The movement of conscience that is alive in socialism and communism is
> directed against the rule of mammon and bloodshed, against class
> hatred and greed. This movement comes from deep within; it is a
> movement of God. But this does not prevent me from recognizing, at the
> same time, the presence of powerful satanic and demonic forces at work
> in these same political movements.
>