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Thanks for the heads up. I don't hasten to pigeonhole Boer, which is not a productive exercise, although apparently an amusing one for our moderator in his more foul-mouthed moments. The current post on Boer's blog includes a quotation from Stalin on religion among peasants. It provides a useful pole for a compare-and-contrast with today's attendees of mega-churches that preach scrambling for prosperity in today's degenerate capitalist society.
"To illustrate how tactlessly the peasants are approached sometimes, a few words must be said about anti-religious propaganda. ... Often they fail to realise that the peasant looks on God in a practical way, i.e., he is not averse to turning away from God sometimes, but he is often torn by doubt: 'Who knows, maybe there is a God after all. Would it not be better to please both the Communists and God, as being safer for my affairs?'"(Works, volume 6, page 323)
Connected is a proverb Stalin liked to quote: It needs thunder to make a peasant cross himself.
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