Aside from this, my acceptance that lower‐class Christians can be just as revolutionary as proletarian atheists is the most important reason why I quit being a stereotypical atheist snob. No doubt the Church tried repeatedly to teach peasants that their lot in life was divinely ordained, but a great deal of Christian peasants revolted against their masters anyway.

More recently, there is liberation theology, normally understood as a Catholic phenomenon, but by a loose definition it can include other Abrahamists. I don’t believe that these are forced attempts at reconciliation; I think that these people are being perfectly sincere when they say that belief in God feels natural to them but submitting to the status quo does not.

Theism may not make sense to me, but I don’t see the point in arguing about it with others either; deconverting them to atheism wouldn’t make a big difference. Personally I’d rather be in the company of Christian socialists than atheist anticommunists (and there are plenty of the latter around).