What was the instance or situation that became your turning point towards pursuing the communism Ideology? <https://www.quora.com/q/gcndwijtiqnytmhy/What-was-the-instance-or-situation-that-became-your-turning-point-towards-pursuing-the-communism-Ideology> 3 Answers <https://www.quora.com/q/gcndwijtiqnytmhy/What-was-the-instance-or-situation-that-became-your-turning-point-towards-pursuing-the-communism-Ideology> · Last followed October 8 · Answer Follow · 3 Request View All <https://www.quora.com/q/gcndwijtiqnytmhy/questions> <https://www.quora.com/profile/Alexander-Finnegan> Alexander Finnegan <https://www.quora.com/profile/Alexander-Finnegan> · October 7 <https://www.quora.com/q/gcndwijtiqnytmhy/Do-communists-believe-in-God> J.D. Law, Marxist Leninist
<https://www.quora.com/profile/Alexander-Finnegan> Alexander Finnegan <https://www.quora.com/profile/Alexander-Finnegan> · October 7 <https://www.quora.com/Do-communists-believe-in-God/answer/Alexander-Finnegan> J.D. Law, Marxist Leninist Do communists believe in God? <https://www.quora.com/Do-communists-believe-in-God> Some do, some don’t. Marx was opposed to religion, calling it the “opium of the masses.” And he was right. Religion can be used by some to avoid living in this world and making revolutionary changes to improve their material conditions now. Religion can become a crutch. My own experience growing up Catholic has been that there are many right wingers and fascists who glom on to religion and use it as a bludgeon to oppress others. Then there are those who decide things will be better “in the next life,” giving up on this one. Some of the “conservative” Catholics who are holier than the Pope (or so they believe) are the opposite of what the Gospels taught. In the Soviet Union there were hotbeds of class enemies organizing under the banner of the churches, led by right wing clerics who wouldn’t take “no” for an answer. They tried desperately to undermine communism. And rightly, those clerics were punished. Consider it from the perspective of the socialist society. But there are some people who take Jesus seriously. And they are true revolutionaries. They are comrades. A temptation of the institutional Church is to become too institutionalized to the society around it. The role of the revolutionary followers is to keep the institutional Church centered on the radical message of Jesus. But at the same time, the institutional Church ensures that the followers do not take things too far. And if they do, the Church is there to mark the clear boundaries of faith. Without this relationship the Church would fragment into a million separate groups as seen in Protestant sects. There should be a tension between the institutional Church and the Church body, of those who heed the radical and revolutionary call of the Gospels. The institutional Church acts as a ground that defines the boundaries of what it means to be Catholic. The people are there not to be spoon fed and blindly obedient, but to lovingly engage in dialogue. There should be a thesis/antithesis type dialectic. In the future, the only true Christians will be communists. Liberation theology is the use of Marxist analysis and Christianity to analyze the socioeconomic conditions of a society and work toward finding answers. Liberation Theology <https://qr.ae/pNkhtx>—New space on Quora
