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Is the belief in a God and communist mutually exclusive? (lemmygrad.ml)

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Does the belief in a god go against dialectical materialism?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think it's difficult to reconcile dialectical materialism with the Judeo-Christian representation of god we have in the west. However, a belief in Spinoza's god being the entirety of matter and the physical laws making it work doesn't strike me as contradictory.

In any cases, we should respect all our comrades and their beliefs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I agree with this, there are some Christian panthiests (podcasts: the liturgists, that one Mathew furlong recommended), but I wish pantheism was more popular in general. Overall, religion is only incompatible with communism as long as it is a tool of the ruling class. Also, spinoza’s god can simply be materialist as the world is more one than it is arbitrarily divided into different segments by humans. It can be harnessed by the working class and who knows if it will wither away or be transformed under socialism.