In a message dated 12/4/2003 3:53:58 PM US Mountain Standard Time, matthew at infodancer.org writes: >>>I don't see any support for communism in Christianity unless you are coming into the question with a preconception that communism is a moral and desirable form of government/economics and other forms are neither moral nor desirable. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Many of the early Christians did in fact practice communism, that is, they lived in communes and shared property. This voluntary communism has little or nothing to do with the Marxist-Leninist state-imposed version. tal