Religion should be debated for the simple reason that it's false
This seems like a less important discussion of religion and leftism. Like, a better starting place (imho) is a discussion of how organised religion has been used to maintain capitalist beliefs and in cases like the Catholic church actively subverted communist efforts.
Religion should be debated for the simple reason that it’s false
This is pure idealism, which is funny because you would think a group of people who profess disbelief in deities and other metaphysical manifestations (the soul, heaven, hell) would be materialists. At a basic level, it assumes religious people act the way they do because of faulty beliefs when it's actually the reverse: religious people join the religious group and through continual social interactions, slowly begin adopting religious beliefs, including faulty beliefs they would've thought was complete bullshit when they were nonreligious.
This seems like a less important discussion of religion and leftism. Like, a better starting place (imho) is a discussion of how organised religion has been used to maintain capitalist beliefs and in cases like the Catholic church actively subverted communist efforts.
This is pure idealism, which is funny because you would think a group of people who profess disbelief in deities and other metaphysical manifestations (the soul, heaven, hell) would be materialists. At a basic level, it assumes religious people act the way they do because of faulty beliefs when it's actually the reverse: religious people join the religious group and through continual social interactions, slowly begin adopting religious beliefs, including faulty beliefs they would've thought was complete bullshit when they were nonreligious.