While I’m not going to get up in anyone’s face for being religious, I could never understand how our comrades of faith square the circle of knowing that natural and societal existence is driven by observable, material processes with believing that something that is completely undetectable to the senses (enhanced with instruments or not) not only exists, but plays a vital role in the way the world and people’s lives work. At least, not Marxists anyway: I could understand if the comrade was another tendency like anarchism or some non-Marxist socialism.

I saw someone on here put it once (I can’t remember who it was though) that religious communists tend to be either very good communists and not very good at their religion or vice versa. Nevertheless, a comrade with cognitive dissonance who contributes materially to the communist movement is better than the one who has ironed out inconsistent beliefs but puts no skin in the game.