• Red_Scare [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 day ago

    I’m sorry, I don’t mean to diss Christianity as such! I do think Bible itself offers little to Marxists but there’s more to Christian history and tradition.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker-priest

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Hagerty

    I’ll be honest, I never looked deeper into this. I was a militant atheist for most of my life and I’m only starting to broaden my horizons, hence my harsh initial reply for which I apologise. Old habits die hard I guess. Our enemy is capital, not religion.

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      It’s not the overall history of Christianity that I’m defending, it’s the basis of Jesus that attracted such followers to such religion, if he existed

      I still remember the story in which he drove out the sellers from the temple

      The time that he drew away Matthew, a tax collector,

      And his fate that he was executed by the Roman gov’t and its Judean Pharisee collaborators, for challenging the latter’s rule

      Was he pro-imperial when he got killed for that, like the commenter said?

      And even if it’s just a story, its not unfeasible that his story was based of separate real life people

      The worst I’d call Jesus would be that he is Utopian