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''Jesus was a champion of the poor, the oppressed, the marginalized and the exploited. The sinners those with leprosy and other diseases, or those who were strongly physically handicapped. If he lived in modern times, he would have sympathized much more with the proletarians toiling for wages under capitalist society, rather than those at the top of the economic ladder benefiting from the expropriation of unpaid labor.
His more economic views would be considered particularly polarizing. In Matthew 19:16–30, a wealthy man comes up to Jesus and asks him what he must do to gain eternal life. Among the points that Jesus states is that “if you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have a treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” His statement that “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God” is especially telling, since the idea that a rich person would have to give up his possessions to enter heaven does not fit with capitalist thinking at all. Jesus also tells his followers that that they should not “serve both God and money” (Matthew 6:24)[[2]])or “store up treasures on Earth” (Matthew 6:19)[[3]] There’s also an instance, which is also one of his greatest miracles, in which Jesus uses five loaves and two fishes given to him by a boy in order to feed a multitude. He states that he has “compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way." Definitely something a working class hero would do.
Jesus was a true comrade. Upon learning all of this, I am actually quite surprised that so many Christians are anti-socialist.
And to finish this answer off, here’s a quote from Acts 2:44, which states how the early Christians had a more or less “communist” lifestyle:
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His more economic views would be considered particularly polarizing. In Matthew 19:16–30, a wealthy man comes up to Jesus and asks him what he must do to gain eternal life. Among the points that Jesus states is that “if you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have a treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” His statement that “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God” is especially telling, since the idea that a rich person would have to give up his possessions to enter heaven does not fit with capitalist thinking at all. Jesus also tells his followers that that they should not “serve both God and money” (Matthew 6:24)[[2]])or “store up treasures on Earth” (Matthew 6:19)[[3]] There’s also an instance, which is also one of his greatest miracles, in which Jesus uses five loaves and two fishes given to him by a boy in order to feed a multitude. He states that he has “compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way." Definitely something a working class hero would do.
Jesus was a true comrade. Upon learning all of this, I am actually quite surprised that so many Christians are anti-socialist.
And to finish this answer off, here’s a quote from Acts 2:44, which states how the early Christians had a more or less “communist” lifestyle:
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