I hear a lot of people talk about how we need to look at religion from a materialist lens and that religion is incomparable with socialism. But I think we need to seperate the two. Religion is about the metaphysical so it’s hard to look at it from a materialist lens. While politics deals with materialist matters, so it’s necessary to view it with a materialist lens. And it’s not like atheism is fully materialist either, with ‘nothing after death’, and ‘universe starting without a god’ being metaphysical explanations as well. And humans are naturally spiritual and to deny that, makes it harder for socialism to be accepted by people. But of course that doesn’t mean we should tolerate the reactionary aspects of religion. We should combat it whenever necessary.
What’s your opinion?
Parents aren’t allowed to torture their children.
Religion is not torture, religious people can use it for torture but that’s the fault of the people, not the religion
Not what I meant. Religion is an opiate.
God, itself, tortures us for basically no reason. It created suffering, it created death, it created sickness, it created everything bad that exists. It hurts us because it loves us and wants us to grow through suffering or whatever, but that’s just the same justification every abuser uses.
Philosophers have only interpreted god in various ways, the point is to punch him in the balls