From “Why Christians Should Be Leftists” by Phil Christman
That afternoon also sealed my fate in another way. Once I had, even for only a moment, imagined the possibility of living in that kind of feeling permanently, I was doomed to be some kind of leftist. For me, the fate of being a Christian and being on the left politically are, if not one and the same fate, at least closely linked, In other words, the ideas of Jesus’ divinity and the incarnation – the central theological claims of CHristianity, along with the resurrection – are linked with the idea that human beings should try to live together in a radically unselfish way, that we can and must try to do so. Ultimately, my Christianity has led me out of conservatism, past liberalism, to the left.