• Coolkidbozzy [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I kind of agree with disco elysium where faith in communism is, in a way, a replacement for faith in religion

    that's where the similarities end though

    • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      that's really really smearing together two usages of "faith".

      even if we never do full communism, working towards it has massively improved the lives of all but the most wall deserving bourgeoise, while working towards whatever religion is has gotten us.... uh... child rape, queerphobia, misogyny, anticommunism, sabotage of pubic health and education, religious nationalism, and some actual theocratic countries that are terrible in somewhat unique ways.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I mean I gotta have faith that it's at least theoretically possible to get better because otherwise killing yourself becomes the only reasonable thing to do.

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        These two comments together is Camus' Myth of Sisyphus, but faith toward a materialist goal is contrasted with a leap of faith into idealism. The faith toward a materialist goal is just living in scorn of the impossible system you're given. If we're constantly rebelling against that, that's the most we can do individually because we don't get to choose to put the rock down and the only point of the system is to break us.

      • fishnwhistle420 [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Killing your self keeps you out of heaven and prevents you from ever seeing the revolution