Normally I’d post this in the reading suggestions thread but I’d thought I’d make a thread on Christian communism so that the largest amount of people on this board could see it and answer my question. Beyond that, just use this thread as a general discussion place for Christian communism. Personally, I’m not a Christian, but, living in the United States I feel that having knowledge of the Bible and how to argue for communism from a Christian position could be a useful skill in fighting reactionaries and even dealing with some of my friends. So my questions are:
Christian Communism
Aiden Ross
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Aiden Carter
You can check out the liberation theologists or Leo Tolstoy but most of the left has been fervently atheist so there's not much written from a Christian pov.
Brayden Richardson
Liberation theology is an odd idealist, theoretically inconsistent form of leftism that uses all the right words in all the wrong ways. Still, they seem to be popular in South America, which is something.
English Standard. There are two schools of biblical translations: the one that does a dry literal translation and one that goes for the spirit of the passage. The latter of those two is completely full of shit and is usually practiced by greedy political groups with an ax to grind. English Standard is the best of the former.
Gavin Reyes
The words of Jesus were hijacked even before they were written. That being said, as a former biblical scholar, I'd recommend the New King James version, as it's just the KJV (somewhat of a masterpiece of translation) merely updated to modern English. It isn't perfect and mistranslates some things, especially in the Old Testament to skew it towards trinitarian doctrine but it's the best you can get.
Jaxon Barnes
christian communism cannot work
if you want a religious communist movement you need a new religion, if you can't conceive something different than old established religions you have already lost.
Carson Wright
Christian communism is an unfunny joke.
You need to spread proper reasoning instead of pasting retarded illogic ontop of retarded illogic in an attempt to make them cancel each other out and hoping nothing backfires.
Jason Gonzalez
There is nothing inherently illogical about Christian Communism, take off your fedoras you whiny atheists and stop your needless sectarianism
Dominic Morales
I’m an atheist and I’m still interested in learning about it mainly for the sake of learning about a religion I’m frankly quite ignorant about as a whole and, as a lesser motivation, finding new ways to discuss communism with Christians. Living in America you will run into many very religious Christians depending on where you live.
Henry Brooks
Everyone interested in the Christian left beyond Liberation Theology or Tolstoy should read
Walter Rauschenbusch
Due to file size limits I unfortunately cannot dump my texts but I can link a few.
Christianity and the Social Crisis:
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Christianizing the Social Order:
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Matthew Jones
That's why I don't take my social views from the left, too many fedora tippers