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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
No wonder you turned Socialist, Dana -- you needed another religion, and you didn't think anything Christian would do it.
Couldn't see that, myself...
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*chuckles*
I was raised as a socialist. Well... that's not strictly speaking true: Mum is and always was a 'socialist' though she would not have used that word to describe herself until about 10-15 years ago. Dad was always more of a mix of liberal and conservative.
As for Christianity and socialism: historically a lot of Christians (particularly amongst the Methodist, Presbytarian and Anglican communions) here are socialists. There is a strong socialist core to working-class cultures that hasn't completely vanished. Yet. The two are heavily intertwined.
I was exposed to religion as a kid, but ours was not a religious household. Dad only rediscovered his faith in the latter years of his life, he'd comprehensively rejected his catholic upbringing when I was growing up. Mum's side of the family are CofE, but again not particularly religious. She is now a confirmed atheist and has been for around 20 years.
Jesus' own teachings (I'm not going to get into arguments about whether or not the man actually lived and spoke) are profoundly socialist in nature: many of the priests and vicars I know (and encounter in my community work) are socialists.