Jesus [he/him]
Proto-anarcho-socialist, yes. Capitalism hadn’t been developed yet, so it was of course missing aspects.
Still, the early church had fully communal property, gender equality, mutual healthcare, and were anti-imperialist to the point that the Romans started executing them because they kept setting fire to Roman buildings.
The Cleansing Of The Temple
The Gospel Of John
13 And the Jewish passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14 In the temple he found merchants selling cattle, sheep and doves for sacrifices. He saw dealers sitting at tables exchanging money and roman currency.
15 Jesus made a whip out of cords, and drove all the merchants out from the Temple. He freed the sheep and cattle, scattered the money changers’ coins across the floor, and overturned their tables.
16 To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here. Stop turning my Father’s house into a marketplace!”
17 Then his disciples remembered this prophecy from the Scriptures: “Concern for God’s house will be my undoing.”
18 and the Jewish leaders demanded, “What are you doing? If God gave you authority to do this, show us a miraculous sign to prove it!”
19 “All right,” Jesus replied. “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple! and you are going to raise it in three days?”
21 But the temple Jesus had spoken of was the flesh and the bones of his body. 22 and when he was resurrected after his crucifixion, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
- JOHN 2: 13-22
The Gospel of Matthew
12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of those that sold doves,
13 And he said unto them “It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of robbers!”
- Matthew 21:12-13
14 In the temple Jesus found merchants selling cattle, sheep and doves for sacrifices. He saw dealers sitting at tables exchanging money and roman currency.
15 Jesus made a whip out of cords, and drove all the merchants out from the Temple. He freed the sheep and cattle, scattered the money changers’ coins across the floor, and overturned their tables.
16 To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here. Stop turning my Father’s house into a marketplace!”
Christianity has been appropriated since the Romans turned it into a state religion. Reformation comes in waves.
Christianity has always been in a constant state of struggle between those who embrace its message of liberation + egalitarianism versus those who blasphemy my words as justification for their idolatry of hate + power.
Paul is the one who had issues with women and queer folks. He was a flawed man filled with regret and envy. Even still, his words have been manipulated to justify terror.
I love all trans people, they are following the truth of their soul which has been given to them by the creator. The body is sacred and so it should match the soul.
“Mary Magdalene is the madwoman - angry mad - in Christianity’s attic. She was hidden there because of an open and not fully appreciated secret, and its implications, at Christianity’s core: that the male disciples fled and the women did not.”
- Jenny Schaberg