Christian communism is a concept that predates Marx.

For many years I felt this approach to Christianity was the best shot for socialism to gain any traction in the USA. I am unsure these days, but still hopeful.

You haven’t been the socialist in bible study in a long time, I see.

“You’re taking it out of context” and “that was different at the time” and “well but actually he also meant this” and “the Bible says this here though” were constant in my teen years and precisely why I just accepted that I’m fully atheist/agnostic.

Selfish pricks are going to selfish prick. Reach out to those who are like minded, sure, and use scripture if they’re religious. But don’t expect to un-racist a dyed-in-the-wool racist with the Bible.

Luke and Timothy have some good shit in them too

Unfortunately, the chuds in my parts are usually not religious (the original Nazis weren't very christian, at times even anti-church, and that is pretty directly the tradition that many of the local chuds stand in). Or they're a slightly different flavor of chud, i.e. far right / ultraconservative muslims - those don't have a lot of impact in the grand scheme of things, but they might still be the ones who beat you up if you e.g. look like a man in a skirt. Any tips on how to convince or at least confuse far right muslims?

On the bright side, the churches in my parts seem to actually be pretty leftwing compared to US churches. Not quite communist, but they're constantly in conflict with conservative and far right parties (and the pope, if catholic) over stuff like immigration policies and on how to treat LGBT+. Still doesn't make me a believer, but it's nice to know that someone has some amount of conscience around here.

No thanks. There's some minor benefit in knowing the lingo, like there is for any other woo, but most people haven't read the source material and quoting it at them won't accomplish anything.

If you say homosexuality is sin, you are basically renouncing Jesus.

They died a super painful death largely because in their opinion, nothing you do with a pure heart – that is, meaning to do good to others and having done your homework to try to understand if it is an okay thing to do or not – is sin.
They were tortured to death very largely because they said that whatever is defined as sin by the old testament is no longer automatically a sin. Jesus of Nazareth invalidated the whole list of sin definitions in old testament.
If you're basing your argument on the Old Testament saying something is a sin, you are renouncing Jesus, and therefore, you are not Christian.

I don't really understand why people want to be Christians in the first place. But, if they want to be, maybe they at least should care about what Jesus said according to the Bible and not just assume that Jesus was some idiot you can safely ignore if you feel like someone being different is automatically a danger to you. Something like 95 % or 99 % of people calling themselves Christians by religion are in practical terms renouncing the word of Jesus. Like, do they not know where the word "Christianity" even comes from?

Mrmph. That's what I say. Mrmph.

Matthew 5 is generally a good way to live your life imo. Unfortunately in my experience American Christians are more than willing to say Jesus was wrong when he said stuff like "give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away." Like he did not stutter, but American Christians would rather burn in hell than give away their material possessions

I think it's too late

Even atheists in the US subscribe to the "fuck you, I got mine" philosophy