Zackxs [he/him,comrade/them]

Well, Jesus didn’t say kill people. It was the Church that got corrupted beyond recognition. They sold Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. So that’s why I’m not a Catholic. Really sorry you had to go through that. It’s an ugly truth, but Jesus didn’t say that.

Yes

No. I was an Atheist before Christianity (and I still am not baptized… YET)

Well, it was not that hard for me actually. The first few months I had a crisis of faith almost weekly, as I was trying to come to terms with Christianity, but after several hundreds of google searches, I had finally figured everything out. It was actually not as bad as it sounds, and it was, all in all, a learning experience.

I was scared shitless of death. That’s why made me interested in spirituality. And I settled on Christianity because of three reasons:

1. Living in Latin America, Christianity is all around me, with almost no other religions around.
2. Christianity is less strict than other religions, like Islam or Judaism (which I believe are also compatible with Socialism)
3. I got curious. And that curiosity led me to read the Gospel According to St. Matthew. And believe me, some of the verses in there are VERY socialist.

Some are true, some are fake, some true ones have stuff added in that Paul didn’t write, some true letters had the name of Junia (a female apostle, which was very good friends with Paul) to Junias, changing it into a male. It’s complicated.

Yes. Francis is really one of the most progressive popes, which is weird because when he was a bishop he was REALLY reactionary.

“Render unto Caesars what is Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s”, even though it might be interpreted as that, I don’t really think it’s that, and it seems pretty farfetched. Some Christian leftists interpret that as a separation of Church and State, which seems more probable. Even if it’s not that political, it’s definitively separating worship and spirituality, from political matters, which doesn’t specifically prohibit political struggle. Regarding Jesus saying “My kingdom is not of this world", I don’t think that’s a political statement. His kingdom is not of this world because he doesn’t have any royal titles. Yet, he is a “king” because in Christianity he is literally God. And regarding Socialism’s rooting in Christianity, the examples you cited are the ones that everyone uses, besides Jesus driving out the merchants from the Temple and Jesus saying that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God. On a sidenote, early Christianity was kinda communist. Engels wrote about that

Yeah, really

About deciding which parts are truthful, I have read several progressive studies (the names, I can’t remember) and took what I learned from that. The pieces of scripture that resonate with me the most are Matthew 19:24 and 21:12-17 It is desirable and effective to “convert”, let’s say people to Marxism, adding them to our ranks, but some people cant be converted and unfortunately have to be taken out by force. But we should keep casualties low. I still haven’t yet decided for a brand of socialism. I don’t know what you mean about cats.