Could someone respecting “Civitas Dei” possibly advocate Socialism or human comforts run by angels? Absolutely. Would this be plausible within certain faiths? Well…… .

One noted 19^th century Socialist…Saint-Simon (1760-1825)…set forth in his 1825 work “New Christianity” his view that: the main function of society is the betterment of the moral and physical existence of the poorest class, women and all people together in emancipation make up society, society needs to erase concepts of private ownership, and society ought to organize itself towards making ANY poor automatically in receipt of bail-out to be on par with everyone else. A Saint-Simon contemporary, Fourier, dittoed all that, only instead of application on a mass scale he espoused local government communes…throw in the then contemporary UK Charterist movement (a six-point “Contract With Workers”), and you’d almost think it was like Federalists (GOP) and State/local rights (Democrats) chasing the same nomenclatura status of a devalued society while vying for Chairman. Indeed, there DO seem to be seeds for making a case that Socialism IS one (but only one) form of Christian religion (not FAITH, just religion).

One big flaw in such thought was that the more people you make “un-poor”, the poorer you make everyone else, then the poorer you make everyone (including all prior “un-poor”) with the next calibration of new “un-poor”, and so on to infinity. Marx, Engels, and Bolsheviks 1917-12/25/91 proved that. Surely, then, no secular or religious leaders or both are working from a Saint-Simon type orthodoxy in politics or faith…are they?

Overlook things like the monumentally huge amount of publicly-funded welfare programs government gives the super-archdiocese of the Chicago/Cook and Lake County Catholic Church (per its website); and lay aside how interesting it is so many psychologists, given to learning ALL religion/faith as anthropomorphized projections in pursuit of comfort, are giving a priori high-fives to the concept of angels in our lives. The real question is: can belief in angels be otherwise than a pan-Christian phenomenon ala Saint-Simon’s “New Christianity” or other than such mental projections as rips apart faith?

Consider angels in light of the complete Old Testament of Judaism together with the complete New Testament of Christianity.

Like shrouds, relics, indulgences, and such, the Bible makes scarce claim that any…let alone infinite hordes of…angels will visit earth, be assigned to folks, be assigned to nations, et al. Neither do angels seem to do more than guide a few people or make God’s announcements prior to Christ’s birth; angels sure weren’t out for the comfort of Sodom and Gomorrah, nor to help pre-Exodus Hebrew slaves, nor to help Jews under Antiochus IV Epiphanes, and so on. Okay, some may say, so maybe angels, to Jews on some God purpose, aren’t for THEM projections in research after comfort, but once Gabriel told Mary of God’s request, the very involvement of angels with the birth of the guy who brought “Civitas Dei” among us PROVES Christianity, at least, is a research after comfort due to Saint-Simon et sequitur, belief in ANY angel(s) for Christians to be badges of thirst for Socialism and its battles for absolute top say-so dog…now let’s regulate that FAITH as pure psychology!  

This would necessarily entail, then, that Christ’s earthly words directly or through terms commanded all humanity to simply see to each others’ comforts even if it means expecting no interest in repentance of psychopathic personalities (biological term, q.v., e.g., http://www.answers.com/topic/psychopathic-personality-psychology ), sociopaths, killers, and so on…and if it means paying Hitlers or Ladens no-strings, too. Goes against Scripture prohibiting abetting or extending Scriptural evil. 

Ontological metaphysics seems to place such comfort scenario squarely in opposition to Christ Himself, short-circuiting the very need for humanity to even be redeemed for ANYTHING it does or fails to do.

No Judeo-Christian Scripture claims that someone “not getting help from ‘their’ angel(s), despite outward good works and inner obedience to God, has “secret sin(s)”, and Jehovah Jireh Yahweh has verily kept His angels from seeing to wealth and comfort of such sinner “; in fact, Psalm 22 and especially Psalm 88…part of the law confirmed as Scripture by Christ, He indicating He only cancelled Leviticus with His mission…show how Godly and charitable one can be, wind up penniless, crushed, and outcast by society for losing all one had as society pursues others for its Saint-Simon-like goals, yet still be loved by God. As Jesus pointed out, we may chase away demons or the devil just by uttering His name, but it’s up to us to decide if we keep listening to a bad idea from evil to stone/banish “losers” or otherwise act poorly, or heed a Godly call to do right things. Jesus also does NOT say angels will DO things ala granting wishes, something which surely would make a mockery out of the call for HUMANS to do good works AND have free will in relation thereto. Jesus did not leave record that God will henceforth stop calling people, but Jesus did say that He will always be with us in using the Holy Spirit to guide us to things and knowledge WE can utilize or do or ignore, on our own choices.

Let’s not even start on the non-easy life writings in Scripture of the Apostles, which plainly include that REAL Christians EXPECT to earn honest livings, especially through the use of their hands.

To simplify, from this short narrative alone, I hope to show that just because someone has ANY degree of belief in angels, such person need not by definition or cheesy parallel inference endorse Saint-Simon Socialism, Calvinist “vessel of wrath” dogma, or both, nor be seeking earthly comfort through faith. 

Jesus having told us in Scripture to shake the dust from our sandals after leaving people case-hardened against the Gospels or taking from us not in humility but to our humiliation, this is why I believe that any religion or congregation using a group dynamic in manifest systematic tensions with its own sacred original texts (or ontology)does not constitute a “quorum” controlling in faith expression (nor “psychology” as any variance is plain), while any people who don’t care a whit about the gravamen of Scriptures in the first place (or enough to actually constantly act in peaceful faith) be left to themselves, and if apropos to Courts, psychologists, or both. 

This is why I further believe clergy and psychologists can together help society, yet without intermingling each other’s God-given talents and skills…ministers like me are concerned with life only as it very generally relates to speaking to SOULS on theophany and the next spiritual life; psychologists very necessarily and most properly can help people and the protection of society through treating those who find they just can’t follow a peaceful spirituality, reasonable law(s), or otherwise grow or participate on earth like most people do.

Insofar as angels per se, I agree with the Aristotelian dialectic of Anselm, the first known Western writer to touch the subject in considering “Cur Deus Homo”, and believe in comparison of Anselm to “De Casu Diaboli” and “De Fide Trin.”: it’s permissible to hold any view not disproved by Scripture where the faith is Christianity.