This is how it worked for me. I was raised in a christian household, where we were told to feed the poor, give the clothes off of your back to the people are cold, care for the widowed, orphans, etc. Then I did them and I argued for laws and policies that would further those things. Hell, I was told this is a "christian nation" and to me, that means we should be enacting policies that require giving to the needy, right? Well, apparently they just meant punishing people for being gay or whatever. I told them that sounds like a theocracy, and not a "christian nation" and that's how I found out communism is good.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"When I feed the poor, I am called a saint. When I ask why they are poor, I am called a communist."

So many stories of Christians raising communists and then having an absolute shit fit that their children actually took to heart things like "feed the poor" and "love thy neighbour" and "it is more difficult for a rich man to enter heaven, than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle".

"When asked "what would Jesus do", remember that whipping capitalists is a valid possibility."

Honestly, in context of things like Liberation Theology or just any reasonable interpretation of the literal words of Jesus in the Bible, it is so weird to me that the Religious Right exists and that Cold War Christianity happened.

[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's really the crux of my family relationship now. They all think I'm insane, i've been poisoned by liberal college professors or something. But really I just read the fuckin book they claim to live by.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

Yeah, definitely this. "No, I don't get these opinions from Liberal Society, I got them from the freakin' Bible. You people need to actually read your holy book." I like those kinds of Christians a lot more than the religious-right idiots.