I’m a leftist Christian. Sarcastically, I refer to myself as a Democratic Socialist American Christian, or DSAC: Because being a left-wing Christian sucks balls. For most of my life, the Christians I’ve been surrounded by have been conservative or conservative-leaning. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone; most major religions have conservative biases. However, what was fairly notable to me is how these folks spoke about people who held left-wing political views. The opinions of leftist ideology ranged from being compared to a lifelong struggle to booking my trip straight to hell (without passing go). Or, my favorite, “if you go left far enough you find yourself at Nazism.” Needless to say, it’s not exactly surprising that a subsection of white Christians might not exactly understand why a black man might prefer the government to have some amount of control over the economy.