I always considered myself agnostic leaning atheist. I consider leftism to be antithetical towards religion. All religions have a class structure to them, do priests, rabbis, or imams not exist? And what about marxism, is karl marx not venerated by some leftists in a weird atheist sort of way?
My problem with this discussion is when were discussing religion, are we really discussing ALL religion or simply abrahamic religions? Because it feels like when people in leftist spaces talk about religion, theyre only really talking about the religions in western culture, not really anything present in the non anglo sphere of the world.
This is true, but it’s probably largely because “religion” as a category of experience and social organization is a modern western concept.