And Christ straight up kicking out business from the church (as in he flipped their tables over, literally):
Now the crusade’s definitely went awry and became an excuse for Venetians and others to take land and power. Especially by the fourth crusade and sacking of Constantinople, etc.
But the Jesus movement led by James the Just and Peter after his death probably was, if the Ebionites were their 2nd-4th century descendants.
There is a theory that this was a critical factor in how fast the early Christianity spread across the Roman Empire - that these newly-bankrupted believers had no choice but to travel and try recruit new members to the Church, in a Ponzi-scheme-like fashion (except nobody was cashing out).
Modern Christianity is probably closer to what Justinian codified [1] (to when the first Bibles date [2]) than earlier traditions. (Not an expert.)
[1] https://www.britannica.com/biography/Justinian-I/Ecclesiasti...
all American political parties are part of the global left in general
America is a fundamentally leftist nation. The social issues American political parties fight over are not applicable in most parts of the world. In most parts of the world left wing political movements (communists) hold the same social lines as the GOP.
From a property perspective, America never had to deal with land redistribution because America never had a feudal system that required it. This property rights make sense in America in a way they didnt in feudal systems.
For example the communist party of Kerala enacted major land reform to redistribute land, but now that the land is redistributed, ownership carries on as normal. America had the opportunity to skip the first step.
Americans have no idea how good they have it
I do not deny that, compared to places where girls are not educated, America is far more progressive as a nation. That's the baseline parties in the US operate in; it is obviously different in other places.
However, it is common to identify the left as championing progressive causes and the right as aiming to preserve existing (or to return to prior) power structures.
The GOP is very definitely a right wing party, even if the baseline it operates in would be regarded as left wing in more oppressive nations.
The issue is that those who label themselves leftists today are indulging in nihilism believing the very institutions that were once far left are somehow evil aristocratic institutions. This sort of nihilism is suicidal and stupid
It would not outrage evangelical conservatives at all. It is what they believe in, except they put it into nicer words. Women should be helpmeet for their husbands. They should homeschool and focus on family, need education only to the level necessary for that.
As for Republicans, they consistently vote for policies to achieve the above.
> America is a fundamentally leftist nation
If you define the left in some completely novel way, maybe.
> America never had to deal with land redistribution because America never had a feudal system that required it.
You might want to read more about how America came to be. The land distribution was rather large issue there.
I don't think it is an absurd notion. The founding fathers maybe wouldn't be outright Montagnards by the original standards of left-right division in the French Revolution that would start soon after, but they would definitively be on the left. The US liberal democratic republic with no official class system and at least a theoretical commitment to individual freedom would be to the left of almost all European governments until the 20th century, if you don't discount too many points for slavery and its aftermath.
My opinion, is that the fundamentally leftist ideology of liberal democracy has been so ideologically victorious it is now the centre, so people now talk anything but socialism is right-wing.
In fact, after being on HN since 2008, I have never encountered someone as wrong as you are.
They are pushing for policies that would do that in effect if not in name. They are gutting public education (which the lower class uses) and trying to force women into motherhood by preventing abortions. Many women who have abortions do so because they are trying to get an education and a child would disrupt that.
I don’t think you understand leftism or American politics