What Does God Say About Helping the Poor and Needy?
October 16th, 2009 By Dr. Ted Baehr, Publisher, and Dr. Tom Snyder, Editor Neo-Communism is sweeping the world. At the same time he is shutting down TV and radio stations, Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez attended the Venice Film Festival with his entourage, to be praised by those who haven’t suffered under his dictatorial regime. A big splash in the news media followed this despicable event. Time and again, history has shown that Communism does not work. When the Mayflower landed, as historian Dr. Marshall Foster has pointed out, the Pilgrims tried a primitive form of Communism. All the fields were owned in common, and so the industrious got upset that, while they worked, lazy scoundrels just sat around and watched them. Eventually, everyone stopped working, and the Plymouth Colony was on the verge of starvation. William Bradford became governor, and he quoted the Bible that those who don’t work won’t eat, so he gave everyone their own private plot of land to work. Suddenly, there was
