Can we please not quote the head of a feudal slave society Tibet until 1951, I don't think the Dalai Lama was very interested in the inner workings of Marxism while he enjoyed the company of his serfs.

If you want to rehabilitate the current Pope because he says nice things that is ok, do it at your own risk of credibility. Words are cheap, actions are what matters and the Catholic Church is the definition of inaction and criminal activity.

Don't quote mine the Bible, it is one of the most hateful books in existence. A handful of vaguely leftist statements don't erase nice little gems like this "how you get to keep the wife and children of male slaves for yourself". Exodus like the rest Old Testament is a human disgrace.

If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. Exodus 21:4

I recommend you go through the Skeptics Annotated Bible. The Old and New testament each have their own flaws are have more than enough bigotry in either one.

I am very supportive of Christian and other religious socialists/communists in any community, and I believe we can continue to support any religious person who wants to become or is already a leftist and a socialist by upholding our own human decency principles and not trying to rehabilitate religions with scriptures full of hate crimes and bigotry.

God may be a communist, he certainly almost never acted like one.

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