To: The Ghost of JG
Christian Socialist Movement. What an oxymoron. It sounds like a movement alright. The daily kind if you catch my drift :)
3 posted on
03/10/2006 10:09:18 AM PST by
beltfed308
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To: beltfed308
The Christian Socialist Movement was begun by the Evangelical minister and anti-Catholic campaigner and demagogue Charles Kingsley in the 1840s.
It has a long history in the UK, and many clergymen and politicians were and are members.
The current organization is the re-formed and modernized CSM originally led by the Reverend Donald Soper.
5 posted on
03/10/2006 11:03:04 AM PST by
wideawake
To: beltfed308; wideawake
It was quite popular in the 19th century. The Pledge of Allegiance was written by a Christian Socialist (Francis Bellamy). There were various experiments in Communal living in the U.S. (Brook Farm being the most prominent). It drifted off into Democratic Politics in the 20th through people like William Jennings Bryan who was a Fundamentalist but who's economic views paved the way for the New Deal.
6 posted on
03/10/2006 12:10:34 PM PST by
Borges
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