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David replied: "First and foremost is meeting and organizing around those
common class interests wouldn't you say? If you argue the issue of god at
every opportunity, you do nothing but alienate those that would be willing to
meet you in struggle against the bosses interests."
No problem here, David. Don't often fight about god with anyone, except
leftist-almost-revolutionists who think being honest about the reality of
religiosity (as opposed to "religion" because, you are correct, any "doctrine"
that replaces one belief with another is, indeed, a problem) is "turning off"
the masses. You want to get all cozy with the half-dream mythologies that have
been perpetrated on the working masses by capitalist greed because "weird"
people who believe in them have your back, by all means please do so. It
doesn't really mean you have it "right" and I (or Dan) have it "wrong". (I
confess that I often have more satisfaction battling with the supposed
"backward" masses over ideas than I do trying to explain why doing so doesn't
absolve me of clearly knowing the nature of that backwardness)
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