need is one thing, want is an entirely different thing. Many people want faith in something that can explain the meaning and purpose behind existence and I don’t think communism will do away with that, in fact, I think communism opens the space for even further exploration on belief and faith. We should oppose reactionary religion, but most religions of the world can be adapted to a socialist way of life, including Christianity and Islam.
Eventually I’d like to think the world will do away with organised religion etc but I’m not going to tell someone they can’t be spiritual as long as that remains a personal thing to them and it’s not something they evangelise or push onto their family, kids, society etc.
It is safer to come together over something supposedly concerned with the immaterial. In the absence of any other permissible basis for an organization, for something to bring people together, religion can be a, or the, focus for resistance against oppression.
It takes more to split a religious congregation apart than it does to split apart a group of secular leftists.
Do we really need any religion though? Christianity, Islam, Buddhism. Do we really need any?
need is one thing, want is an entirely different thing. Many people want faith in something that can explain the meaning and purpose behind existence and I don’t think communism will do away with that, in fact, I think communism opens the space for even further exploration on belief and faith. We should oppose reactionary religion, but most religions of the world can be adapted to a socialist way of life, including Christianity and Islam.
Eventually I’d like to think the world will do away with organised religion etc but I’m not going to tell someone they can’t be spiritual as long as that remains a personal thing to them and it’s not something they evangelise or push onto their family, kids, society etc.
It is safer to come together over something supposedly concerned with the immaterial. In the absence of any other permissible basis for an organization, for something to bring people together, religion can be a, or the, focus for resistance against oppression.
It takes more to split a religious congregation apart than it does to split apart a group of secular leftists.