NY Magazine: Bernie Sanders and the God Factor

[LiberalElite]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/bernie-sanderss-religious-background-an-issue.html?mid=google&google_editors_picks=true

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The "S-word" — socialist — hangs over Bernie Sanders's campaign like a spectral question mark. His self-identification as a "democratic socialist" is a matter of indifference to most supporters — especially the young — and even to many conservatives who assume all Democrats are socialist these days (remember the weird effort at the RNC a few years back to insist on labeling the opposition the "Democrat Socialist Party"?). But it's certainly a new thing historically in a country where socialism never really caught on as a mainstream ideological tradition.
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The final paragraph is a bit irritating.

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Jesus was the first to tout separation of Church & State, was Jesus a Socialist ?

I believe so .

[LiberalElite]

2. I do too. eom

[Nyan]

3. Oh yeah, I believe he was.

He turned the apple cart upside down (quite literally, as I recall?).