No, Washington Post, The Virgin Mary Was Not A Socialist! 💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫 Recently Acts of Faith, which is a religious news and opinion page run by the Washington Post, published an article which argued that evangelical Christians avoided the Magnificat (the poem/song uttered by the Virgin Mary during her visit to her cousin, Elizabeth) because it was 'revolutionary' and that conflicts with our conservative ideology.  Pretty much no actual evidence is mustered to show that evangelicals actually do avoid the Magnificat, nor that the Magnificat has a left tilt which clashes with conservative ideology, nor that this non-demonstrated aversion to its non-demonstrated leftist tilt occurs for reasons other than the obvious reason, which is evangelical reaction to Marian devotion by Roman Catholics.  As someone who has moved in a broad range of evangelical circles for almost four decades, I can tell you that I have never, ever, not even once, heard any evangelical express any ideological concern about the Magnificat.  And why should we express such a concern? After all, the Mary/Marx nexus (Maryx?) is completely made up, not drawn from the text of Scripture. The article in question argues that because Mary lived in a society with high inequality this implies a certain ideological slant to the left: 💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫 ( Full story below ) 💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫 https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/jerrybowyer/2018/12/24/no-washington-post-the-virgin-mary-was-not-a-socialist-n2538006