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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

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 65 points 3 days ago (1 children)

geordi-no Killing God with the power of friendship

geordi-yes Bringing God to trial and sentencing him to death with the power of friendship

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago

The history of trying things that aren"t people - gods, animlas, weather, dead folks, ideas - and passive sentence on them is a good fun wacky slice of history.

[–] abc@hexbear.net 47 points 3 days ago

That monkey bastard when the villagers took his ass to court: horror

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 44 points 3 days ago

the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"If God existed, it would be necessary to abolish him."

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago

If God existed, I would fistfight him to the death. Anybody who created all this shit is no comrade of mine.

They also constructed, in entire country, comprehensive network of magical amulets and wards against the return of the god of dysentery, though godless commies call those "plumbing" and "healthcare".

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 38 points 3 days ago (3 children)

MURDERTHEGODSANDTOPPLETHEIRTHRONES IA! IA!

[–] PostyourJaggaHogs@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS MENTIONED

[–] Smeagolicious@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago

HEAVEN THROUGH VIOLENCE, REACHED

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

She will and after that eat some noodles.

[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

free people from bondage to... astrology

Wow, didn't realize the Chinese Communist Party hated women!

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago

They also hate men, if you extend that to economics!

[–] BlueMagaChud@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago

hell yeah, attack and dethrone god

[–] HomoSexualTransStalinist@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Today while engaging in class struggle I summoned Ch'i-t'ien to try and weaken him so our struggle session would work better. He is so fucking powerful. I'm not at a power level to do this alone. I barely escaped with my life and I'm dialectically injured to a great amount, but I think I'll make it. I can't imagine what he would do to a new, unsuspecting maoist. I'm scared that I will have to face him again soon if I ever want to continue astral projecting. I'm currently reading the little red book and drawing marxist energy from my copy of Capital to try and heal as quickly as possible. Please be safe everyone. Ch'i-t'ien is much stronger than I first imagined and we will have to do this together if we want to slay a god.

[–] Homme_Tanks@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago

Geomancy is such a powerful subclass with excellent AoE crowd control abilities