Was Judas the world’s first socialist?

While readers of The Spectator Australia may not usually find themselves immersed in discussions of the Bible and theology, they would routinely have waded into important contributions here on socialism, statism, and the war on the individual. Let me tie these elements together in a chat about the religious left. 

These folks like to claim that Christianity is on their side as they seek to defend socialism, attack capitalism, and promote folks like AOC and Bernie Sanders – or at the moment, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Of course those of us who can be called religious conservatives beg to differ. This article is one example of this, so bear with me as we briefly open the pages of Scripture. In John…