Is the Left Hostile to Religion?

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Is the Left Hostile to Religion?

Arri: Jun 11, 2005; NpNp

The left, i.e. Anarchists, socialists and communists (lots of overlap here), is against hierarchy and unjustified authority in general. Any system that seeks to control people through the oppression of hierarchy is opposed by most leftists except of the authoritarian type, such as Leninists, Stalinists, Tankies and Maoists. Religion is a hierarchical system of oppression and thus is generally opposed by those of us on the left who are not authoritarians. We also accept people who are religious but that do not want to force their system upon us, as a pragmatic compromise since most of the world is still fairly religious.

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Arri: Jun 11, 2005; NpNp

Also that quote from Marx about religion being the opiate of the masses was about how capitalism forces the masses into the hands of religion for mitigation of capitalism's excesses.

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