As someone who's pretty significantly left (at least in the US political spectrum) I've become pretty fed up with Jacobin. The author of this article is a reli

As someone who's pretty significantly left (at least in the US political spectrum) I've become pretty fed up with Jacobin. The author of this article is a religious historian, which explains a lot of the "circuitous" language (his word). But to me, the whole article is just "blah blah blah", pointless exposition with no real bearing on current reality. Whatever may, or may not, have been the case in the Levant 2000 years ago (and no one really knows); this is 2025, and according to many US "christians" the most famous quote of the little bebe jesus is "f_ck the poor, let 'em rot in the gutter". Ironically, failing to acknowledge that many of them fit into that very category. If the author would like to differ with the ideals of christianity regarding wealth, maybe he should write to the vatican? You know, that autonomous country inside of Italy, with it's own central bank, and storehouses of looted nazi treasure. The current pope aside, they haven't exactly been a savior of the poor historically. I'm sure many earnest, caring, giving christians will be downvoting my post. But a reality of our world, outside of philosophical sophistry. is that religion has been the source of more murder and mayhem than any other single cause. It may have been originally a practice of the poor, but the only reason it's still a phenomenon in the modern world is because the wealthy and powerful have promoted and used it as a tool to rile the poor into dismembering each other, to see which rich guy gets the goods. Sorry, I'm an evangelical atheist for life...