There is one insidious cliché that I have heard frequently in recent years, both in and out of the classroom: “If Jesus walked among us today, He would be a communist.”
Here is a mantra worded for thoughtless parroting, and while it is shocking in its ignorance of both history and the Bible, it wins converts largely due to the ignorance of its hearers, as it seems to be cawed more and more, uncontested. One of my own students brought up this idea in class a couple of years ago after hearing it from someone else, and he asked me if
