• VonCesaw@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Jesus predates Socialist values, they just happen to overlap so many times that it’s colloquial shorthand

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      2 years ago

      The New Testament as a whole espouses a kind of ‘primitive communism’ that has roots in the society of Ancient Israelite tribes. Very social capital, gift economy kind of behavior. I mean, look at the tale of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts.