I’m not religious though I was Christian for a few years in the past. Not that fond of Christianity either now, but from reading the bible, a lot of the teachings of Jesus seem pretty similar to communism or at least socialism. For example, equality for all humans, giving everything you own to help those less fortunate, etc.
Yet, probably because of western propaganda, most Christians seem to think communism is literally invented by Satan and absolutely refuse to look into it beyond what their propaganda has told them. I know there are some Christian communists, but at least in English speaking countries, they’re extremely rare. A lot of Cubans are Christians though, for example.
Has anyone had any luck debating communism with Christians? Any success? Are there any Christian communists you personally know?
That first passage is worth quoting in full:
Jesus said to his Apostles: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s enemies will be those of his household.”This is an oft-cited passage by Žižek, partly in reference to his Christian Atheism, but also as a link between that position and his radical position. There is a sense in which all emancipatory projects must always begin through the priority of the greater community (global, in the case of a world religion) over those of, say, kinship or its psychological baggage.