Originally Posted by Ardy
Originally Posted by issodhos
Hardly collectivist in the political sense, wot?;-)
Yours,
Issodhos
There is no evidence that Jesus set out a political agenda.

Of course there isn't. He was all about a one-on-one individual relationship with God, wasn't he?:-)

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There is, however, pretty good evidence that the early church was significantly collectivist compared to society at large.

Certainly it was collective -- in a socially communal and voluntary way (at least early on). By the way, let us be careful in jumping from comments concerning Jesus and comments concerning the early church so as to avoid accidental conflation of the two.;-)
Yours,
Issodhos

"When all has been said that can be said, and all has been done that can be done, there will be poetry";-) -- Issodhos