no but he was when he told people to pay their taxes and be good slaves. Think about it this way if a liberal journalist for example wrote an article exposing some of the extreme excesses of capitalism and got assassinated for it does that make them anti capitalist even if they generally support it?

But the way i see it it doesnt matter, your argument is just kinda irrelevant to me, the fact that his words and actions can support a pro empire and pro slavery view at all is enough because that is what it has been used to support. For example if a right wing politician cultivated and empowered and dog whittled to a following of people who some minority and this resulted in hate crimes i dont care if their official stance is that hate crimes are bad and that whichever group their following targets is great, the actual result of his actions and words are what matters and that goes double for a figure like jesus who if there is any truth to his existence it most have been very different from what the stories if for nothing else because many of the stories are contradictory or magical, the man simply is what people have made of him, and people have made him a symbol of empire and capitalism, i mean christmas IS pure consumerism.