Yes Suibhne, many Socialists do go out of their way to be antagonistic towrd the Scripture. Much is the pity.

Socialism is born of Secularism. The value of scripture is purely cultural, thus we might embrace them as part of an overall Secular Enlightenment that views such things in context with using them as a basis for Absolute Belief. Even an Aggressive Secularist like myself might stand in awe before Rylands Papyrus p52, but I would not endorse a belief in the supernatural as a basis for government nor the notion that some Obscure Judean Hippy Cult hung up on possessions (man) were somehow influential on a political philosophy that arose in direct resaction to industrial capitalism some 1800 years later. On the contrary, it seems the teachings of said Obscure Judean Hippy Cult were the foundantions of the very capitalism socialism arose in order to challenge, thus the very term Christian Socialism far from being tautologous is, in truth, something of an oxymoron.