A problem of Marxism

Marxism is a massive body of knowledge and doctrines, that encompasses almost all fields of society. All but one, that is religion.

I used to strongly antireligious, but then I found out that Religion has many positive and even essential functions, and adopted some of them for myself: a sort of quasi-prayer/meditation, to motivate myself or tune my consciousness.

Religion is a set of rituals, that bind people together and put their minds at ease and simple venerated dogmas that show what is right and what is wrong.

Marxism offers just a single bihevoral model: a golden hero titan, and extremely few people can actually fit that. In all other aspects, it has to fall back to traditional cultural constructs.

Many religions coopted marxism in some form (liberation theology and many others), but still, these are pretty half-assed and, more importantly, associated with their parent religions.

IMHO, Neoconfucian paganism would fit the future communist paradise quite well.

Look up gustavo guitierrez and liberation theology

Every religion is a dual power system that can only serve as a barrier to communism. Cultivate Radical Subjectivity.

Spookposting satisfies my religious needs.

The religious impulse would be sated by philosophy and drugs. Not even joking.

Great story OP

"Religion is the weed of the masses." ~ KarlMxxx420noscope

Just become a deist. It's p nice

This.
Panentheism and Pantheism is also quite comfy.

There is no god but Bob and the name of his Prophet is Rev. Ivan Stang.

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Why do you even need religion to engage in rituals? Just do the meditation without the "literally talking to sky daddy, guys" part.

Religion is, in essence, a set of rituals, that bind people together and put their minds at ease and simple venerated dogmas that show what is right and what is wrong.

You need religion so that those rituals become communal and reinforced, and have nothing to do with sky daddy.

While I myself require just a meditation of sorts, I see many people around me who need it for many other things.

Creative work is all you need: rituals, meditation, contemplation, and the satisfaction of creation and contribution all in one. Uncreative meditation or prayer or the likes is for faggots.

same thing happened to nick land. and then Holla Forums invented a god as well. be careful OP you can't just turn that shit off once you get into it

CHRISTIANITY, THE ONLY TRUE RELIGION, IS THE BACKBONE OF OUR WORLD AND SO SHALL IT SERVE UNTIL THE END OF DAYS. HELL IS REAL AND ETERNAL AND HOMOSEXUALITY IS A DEBASING PERVERSION OF GOD'S HUMAN CREATION.

man dril tweets got fucked up lately

Religious beliefs, even the most harmless seeming, enable hierarchy on a non-material basis, if a subject decides to install themself as spiritual leader.
During the dictatorship of the proletariat I could see it as being useful, especially because a state could regulate the influence of spirituality on society, but even then there shouldn't be necessary for people to fall back into rituals and beliefs to lead a life which they find tolerable because the material conditions they find themselves in after the revolution won't leave them as deprived of satisfaction in their lifes as in prior societal stages.
So no, spirituality will become obsolete when glorious socialism arises and would propably do more harm than good in communism.
If you need it for yourself, practice it, but don't expect anyone to adapt these practices and beliefs.
Also, if your beliefs cater to reactionary needs and if there were religious structures and spiritual hierarchies installed and whatever you believed turned into organized religion, prepare to be purged.

its a fucking fact that religion is neurological; our brains evolved to see certain colors, hear certain sounds, be aware of our bodies and spaces and relations and so on, all for the sake of getting food and procreating
and being religious was somehow a big part of this, or our combination of all these very sophisticated brain centers accidently also gave rise to religion, and these brains were simply superior at staying alive
it is obvious, all cultures are religious
THERE IS NO ATHEIST CULTURE OR TRIBE OR PEOPLE OR WHATEVER

marx was a fucking retard for not addressing this

It is in line of what I was talking about, but as for the last part, many geniuses aren't religious. And creating a whole religion takes a special kind of a genius too.

there arent many geniuses
all of classical music in this world that is being listened, made by less than 5 people
all of modern physics, less than 5 ppl
einstein, newton, galilei, plato, aristotle, they were all religious in their own way, and they elaborated all their views

today there its just unintelligent trendy annoying fucks going around shouting "look at me look at me LOOK AT ME L O O K A T M E E E E I have nothing going on for me but I am an atheist which instantly make me ultra hyper mega genious"

I have no clue where this intellect and religiosity correlation comes from, like what actual scientific measurement?
Just a gutter trash pop-sci bullshit such as.. Dawkins and other fedora internet celebs saying things.

Nice try, Holla Forums and/or r/socialism


Actually, though:
Marx was far from fedora-tier. I think he has a very robust analysis of religion as a sociological phenomenon. People always cut off the first part of the quote to make it seem as though he's saying it's like tripping on shrooms or being psychotic.
It's both a device of, and coping mechanism for, class rule. I'd probably say something about Nietzsche's genealogy of morals here, too, if I was certain I wouldn't embarrass myself.


Cognitive styles slanted more towards systematizing over empathizing are consistently less religious. This is why, for instance, men tend to be less religious than women, and autistics tend to be significantly less religious than the general population.
IQ measurements or other cognitive testing and subjective self-reporting questionnaires about one's religious beliefs
It's an absolutely trivial way to be above 90% of the population, m8. Adolescent psychology is a strange thing, what with all the issues of self-definition and esteem and so on. While being an atheist isn't really exceptional, it's not a step everyone can take and some kids overemphasize it as a redeeming quality for that reason.
This is just patently false though

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Remember kids, just claim evolution. How does the physical body cause this? It just does, duck you and believe me.

Nigga what you want religion for? I bet what you're actually looking for is existential conclusivity.

The whole point of socialism is to terminate the cycle of capital. So the only sensible idealist accompaniment to that will deal with the termination of philosophy itself. Liberation of the self to the fullest.

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