And Godamn I wish knew more about ideology to make a cogent argument for it. Because while I’m not a Christian, I can’t help but notice how Jesus basically symbolizes most of what I believe as a socialist.
Really could be my autistic brain stretching some of the minute details, but think about it for a sec. You have two groups of people with a strong belief (sharing art and music with a group of likeminded people and giving praise to something you believe controls your life) and there are these fuckers in both cases selling shit and disturbing the realness of it all
Idk maybe I’m just a hater, but the two situations seem logically the same to me.
Less Jesus and more biblical prophets / the bible generally. In his September 1843 letter to Arnold Ruge, he called religion a "register of the theoretical struggles of mankind"(MECW3 p143). He seems to have treated it throughout his life similarly to Adam Smith or Ricardo; i.e. as a theoretical work with tons of flaws but some useful ideas.
The best example I can think of for commodity fetishism in the Bible is actually in Isaiah and Jeremaiah; as a condemnation of idol worship:
Isaiah 2:7-8
Jeremaiah 10:5
Compare to Marx in Capital