Artful Dodger: Do the early Christians sound like Capitalists to you? I said it sounds like Socialism, at least more like Socialism than Capitalism. And it does. It was more collectivist than individualist. I also did not argue that I condone Socialism, per se. Republicans accuse Democrats of being Socialists every other minute or so. Yet the Republicans surely support Corporate Welfare & the Military-Industrial-Complex, which amounts to Socialism for the rich. It also amounts to the slaughter & impoverishment of untold numbers of innocents abroad. So again, I fall back to my earlier claim, that Republicans, as a unit, and our Government, as an entity, despise the poor and serve the rich. For which you will have to answer to due time. :o)