[mitch5501]

"I've often thought, and occasionally said, that socialism is a kind of perverted, over the top form of Christianity,"

It does look that way don't it.One relies on the goodness and authority of God,the other on the goodness and authority of man.

So in a back-handed sort of way all those academics who salivate over socialism are actually agreeing that christianity is good,they just don't want He who knows all men meddling in it.

[kabumpo]

Actually, Hitler once said the same thing. That Bolshevism was a Christian heresy.