Many socialists don’t reject Christianity. They rewrite it.
Rather than denying Jesus’ teaching, they twist it into a mandate for government action and wealth redistribution.
That’s why socialism often functions less as a rival religion than as a Christian heresy: it begins with Christian truth and distorts it into something fundamentally different.
James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, recently provided a nearly perfect illustration of this process.
He began by discussing a basic teaching of Jesus and ended up demanding that the government take care of people’s basic needs.
