• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Yeah, from saints like Francis of Assisi and Dorothy Day to the fact that the early church was basically voluntary communes Christianity could’ve just embraced communism and socialism. Hell there’s liberation theology as well!

    • frezik@midwest.social
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      4 months ago

      Go back 100 years, and a big chunk of American church leaders either outright identified as socialist or were sympathetic. The early push for the prosperity gospel was laughed off because it was transparently a cop to the rich. Took decades to make it stick.