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#12 - God's Socialist, pt. 2: What Child Is This?

The Martyr Made Podcast

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The Soviet Union Was Not Going to Be Able to Do It

In 1952, Jim was not going to attract a congregation by ranting Marxist Leninist dialectical materialism. At four years old, he learned that he could get laughs out of the young men at the auto shop by cursing at them. The reaction of adults defining him running around naked taught him another way of getting attention by transgression. People in Lynn recalled that after a while he would rarely go anywhere without being surrounded by his pets.

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