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God's sake? You care about Him?
No, I'm not /really/ an atheist, I'm more of an agnostic. But I take a more Nietzschean view of the subject: "god is dead" i.e. god is entirely irrelevant. "Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave-owners." - V.I. Lenin, The State and Revolution, 1965
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
- Bjarne Stroustrup
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Just curious, since communism/democratic socialism/Marxism...whatever you want to call it - is completely atheistic.
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Just curious, since communism/democratic socialism/Marxism...whatever you want to call it - is completely atheistic.
Actually, that's a rather misunderstood facet of socialism. Marx was Jewish and then later became a Protestant, so you /can/ be a Marxist and religious. Lenin, on the other hand, believed being religious was incompatible with socialism. Hence, even as a Marxist-Leninist, a belief in /god/ is not discouraged - in fact, theoretically, you could follow a certain faith, as long as you placed socialism before it. "Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave-owners." - V.I. Lenin, The State and Revolution, 1965
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
- Bjarne Stroustrup
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Well, one of Marx's most famous apothegms is the "Religion is the opiate of the people". Not real complimentary.
It's possible to be born and raised in a faith and then abnegate it later in life---even to become antireligious.
There are some who consider Communism to be itself a sort of religion, complete with a bible, tenets of faith, martyrs, an hagiography, even icons ( Lenin's tomb had long lines of people placing flowers and candles on it long after the Soviet Union had fallen and Communism been renounced ).
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