What religion, if any, is most compatible with communist ideology?
What religion, if any, is most compatible with communist ideology?
I always believed religion was incompatible with a society rooted in addressing material reality, although I know we have have religious users and wanted to hear people's takes.
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All religions are compatible with communism except for american [and by extension western] protestantism
ngl catholic and protestant Christianity are both on the fash watchlist. you can't enable mass genocide and multiple wars in the middle east and keep your commie card.
You're clearly forgetting that Catholics can be absolved of all wrongdoing by going into a little box and telling a priest that they did a bad thing and then saying a handful of ritualized prayers.
That's not actually how confession works, but that doesn't stop most Catholics from believing it is.
You gotta buy those indulgences
Add Russian Orthodox Church to that. The exiled parts of the ROC literally worked for the German government during WW2 and were given conquered land to manage.
Also, let's not forget the Christian justification for chattel slavery and for why killing Muslim people is a-okay.
Catholicism is genuinely the least-compatible religious formation with communism, and one need only look at their having their own state with a theocratic master of policy and a vast amount of wealth to understand why. If you want to imagine a non-papal Catholicism, knock yourself out, but what exists now is in opposition to communist organization.