I was wondering, since religions are fundamentally social structures built to set hierarchies and justify inequality, and all religious dogma and theology has failed to disprove the null hypothesis of atheism, does it hamper a comrade's integrity if she is conflicted in shedding off her circumstantial religion?

What do you guys think?

  • muddi [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Interpreting "essential" in the philosophical sense, that it is impossible to find a genuine communist who is not misotheist: no

    (btw misotheism is the hatred of God, and hating God requires you to believe in God. I assume you mean aggressively atheist or anti-religion)

    You can be a communist and believe in God. You will probably come across inconsistencies somewhere, but that doesn't really disqualify you from being a communist. I'm pulling out that quote:

    We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

    Being a communist is more about what we do materially. Our actions are informed by our previous and current conditions. These conditions might include religion. This doesn't disqualify us from communism. In fact it might require it in some cases.

    Also, our actions are informed by conditions, but that doesn't always mean well-informed. Part of the communist attitude involves improving this so we do become well-informed. This might involve becoming more familiar with religion (eg. if we need to work with a religious community), or rejecting it (eg. we are recovering from leaving a toxic religious community).