I have seen a couple of interesting posts on this subject on Facebook. One was an article entitled “Christian Democrat?” on In All Things. The website is a Dordt College project, so the article has a very reformed leaning. But it is a good article and on point. I’m not reformed, so the discussion about John Calvin and Abraham Kuyper was less influential for me. Though, I do have an affinity for certain aspects of their thinking. But I was taken back to their quotes when I ran across a link from John Piper asking, “How Should Christians Think About Socialism?”

Piper is a controversial but also widely popular and influential voice in evangelicalism. He is also a very public Calvinist. He tried to be very measured in his response to the question the podcast/ article addresses. Still, he showed a propensity to conflate the type of “Socialism” being advocated by people like Bernie Sanders with a more hard-line political movement of historical communism that grew following the Second World War. As such, he set up a bit of a strawman anti-socialist argument....