Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

Socialist Jesus is

• anachronistic (property+ownership, private vs social don't make much sense 2 kya),
• incongruent with most of Christianity and Socialism,
• propaganda.

Jaques Elul was an interesting man. His book about Christianity and Anarchy is a must if you want to continue unrolling this thoughts

Teached -> taught

The problem was that the church needed to reach out to the nobles to spread, so promising wealth became a sticking point

they know christianity is bullshit but it's great for getting votes

100%. I've been reading about early christianity for the last 20 months and a major characteristic was shared meals. They were absolutely following a socialist model. But we do capitalism. Woohoo.

Christianity is incredibly easy to fake. Anyone can call themselves a Christian with little, if any, blowback. It's the whole 'sinner saved by grace' schtick - which is, essentially, "Yup, I'm a Christian but I don't really have to act like one."

I'm no longer a Christian but when people tried to get jesus to weigh in on hot button political issues of his day (probably to entrap him into saying something that would piss off either the zealots or the romans) he told them "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's; render unto god what is God's". The meaning, I take it, is that he was there with a spiritual message, not a political one

People care about helping people.

Its had a billion different names throughout history and each of them has been or will be subverted into something bad by people who seek control.