• Kultronx
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    7 months ago

    No worries comrade. Religion is always a tricky issue for Communists… while we are materialists and do not usually agree with the idealism of religion (of which I count myself), religion is a deep rooted part of people’s culture that many people hold dear due to familial reasons or otherwise, especially in times of duress and poverty. It’s usually best to live and let live. For example, in 1941 when the Great Patriotic War happened, people flocked to churches in fear, and Stalin knew to just let people do that, lest it build resentment at the difficult time. But then after the war, anti-religious sentiment was stepped up, and built so much resentment that we have the very hyper-religious Russia of today. Although I don’t care much for the social democracies of Europe for many reasons, I think having a strong education system (to put it broadly) like theirs is the best tool as people will slowly turn away from religion over the generations once the fear of “this world” is less pronounced and their material needs are met and they are less inclined to find hope in the “next world”.