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[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 69 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Honestly an important example for communism being anti-religious. This idea gets thrown around a lot as if it means communists will oppress you for being a Christian or something, but they don't mention that there were fucking geomancers and mud idolatry cults taking people's income to throw in the river to get a blessing and not die from drinking dirty water. This is still a huge issue all around the world, like in India with the Brahmin mafia needing to get cut in on everything that happens in society to just burn some incense and say some words or else everyone will be punished by this god or that god, or the so-called Hyenas in Malawi who are hired to sleep with kids after their first menstruation in order to "cleanse" them, or the Catholic church for, well everything they've done. It makes sense that communists would fight these things, and they are religious things, but it doesn't have to mean that a communist must be anti-religious to fight specific examples of abuse from metaphysical thinking that they see around them.

[–] TheChemist@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have noticed lots of examples of people using religion to "justify" actions that are right at home with the playbook of a Snake Oil Salesman.

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

yeah it is quite literally the oldest trick in the book and the origination of class society

[–] BlueMagaChud@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd argue that animal husbandry was the start, but that's definitely the origin of the First Estate

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

yeah maybe so, I feel like people were practicing animal husbandry under primitive communism though right? I would assume the first instance of having a class divide socially would have required a religious concept to justify it