>>7503617left socialism is inherently materialistic and antichristian. Christ was not principally concerned with economic issues or even questions of political power, and even if his views could be said to be socialistic in some vague sense modern leftism is clearly divorced from anything else he stood for. Sad 20th-21st century attempts to reframe Christ as some live and let live hippie or leftist revolutionary cannot change that, the truth is evident in the Gospels and historical record.