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Verily, Verily Jesus is not a socialist

My step-brother-in-law posted a link on fb to an article proposing that Jesus was a socialist.  I've read references to this in other places but I never bothered to read them.  It always seemed sacrilegious to tie political terminology to the creator of space and time.  Or to think of it in other terms, mankind's created political systems being superimposed on a pre-existent all-knowing God. This time I followed the link and read the first several paragraphs before having a mental vomit fest of the heresy I was reading. Liberals have been trying to de-demonize socialism for decades.  Twisting Jesus around to their political ideology is sick.  As others have written, I am not going to propose that Jesus was a conservative.  In fact when Jesus says to give unto Caesar what is Caesar's, he is distinctly separating himself and his ministry from earthly governments.  Jesus will eventually setup a government on a new earth and there will also be a new heaven, but that system