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Are you a Grinch or a Jesus? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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