I say this as someone raised Christian.

You can, and many people do, take a progressive interpretation of Christianity, but I don’t think it’s the INHERENT interpretation of the faith, in fact I think taking an progressive interpretation of it requires focusing on specific teachings of Jesus and Jesus alone, which many left Christians do but they are not the majority interpretation of the faith.

And even the teachings of Jesus, I basically view it just as Millenarianism, he told people to purify themselves for a coming apocalypse, that I honestly think he thought was coming much sooner that most Christians today think it is. Yes the things he told people to do to purify themselves are mostly good things that are pretty compatible with socialism, but it is still mostly individualist charity for the goal of spiritual purification. I don’t think any of that is incompatible with a conservative worldview.

I’m just saying this because I see a lot of people try and “hypocrisy own” American conservative Christians right now by pointing to snippets of Jesus’ teachings, when I don’t think that shits ever going to be effective, because when you take the Bible as a whole it’s still overall a conservative text, making a progressive interpretation of it basically requires editing out massive chunks (like basically everything Paul said, which again a lot of left wing Christians basically throw out Paul).