Some would say, "How is it different ...whether someone steals your money, or if the government takes it??"

Some nations have witnessed protests, looting, destruction, and overthrow.

Those who overthrow the government are redistributing the power.

Suppose a nation protests a present government, and steals the power.  They take power and wealth, and justify it by saying they believe in redistribution of wealth.  What would happen next??

Would they then have to give some of it back, because they would be the wealthy ones and the ones whom they took it from would be the new poor??

And what would happen if everyone would have the same??

Some people would spend it on booze, drugs, and gambling.

Others would spend wisely, and perhaps invest a portion of it.

What if you take your own savings, and choose to distribute it over the years ...so you can give yourself peace of mind and some security??

You'd have to give up your retirement savings because the person who spent their present money on drugs and booze, now has nothing more ...so they need some of what you have, to waste that too.

Soon there wouldn't be anyone who'd have anything.

That being established, who would have anything to be able to redistribute??

If we are to aspire to redistribution ...we should realize it does not work.

There is no way we can distribute equally ...and to call for redistribution, is really calling to do exactly that.  It is calling to move it from one place to another.

What people could say is that they want equal distribution ...not redistribution.  And maybe that is what they are asking for ...but should realize that is also not possible.  The reasons I've already given are well-evidenced in our world, where we are not always wise stewards of what we have.

 

We need to wisely accept that which is distributed equally to us ...but to have it, we have to accept it.

I'm speaking of the wealth of promises everyone can have through Jesus ...so, I would recommend not signing on with some other program.