Christian Communism part of the 3rd Great Awakening?

This thought recently passed through my head, of one of the many ways to get communism of some sort to take root in America, and while I know the most interesting one is probably The Reds!, I had a thought for something perhaps a bit more interesting, and somewhat ironic perhaps.


Is there a way that a Christian Brand of Communism could have sprouted up from the 3rd Great Awakening? What effects would there be if it spread as fast and as far as this third of America's religious revivals?
 
This thought recently passed through my head, of one of the many ways to get communism of some sort to take root in America, and while I know the most interesting one is probably The Reds!, I had a thought for something perhaps a bit more interesting, and somewhat ironic perhaps.


Is there a way that a Christian Brand of Communism could have sprouted up from the 3rd Great Awakening? What effects would there be if it spread as fast and as far as this third of America's religious revivals?

If special attention is given to Acts of the Apostles, particularly the early Christian societies therewithin that were, in many ways, proto-communist, it's technically possible.
 
OTL, there's Kerala in southern India, where there are a number of Christian Communists.

Liberation Theology veered heavily towards communism in general and sometimes arrived there.

So, Christian Communism exists iOTL. A Red USA would likely see it.

Note, too, that while Canada's NDP is hardly Communist, it is avowedly Socialist and it was founded by a pair of Baptist ministers.
 
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