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Religion--the fight against it, anyway--was much more important to me when I was younger and distancing myself from the Catholicism in which I had been raised. Still, as an issue worth arguing with working people, it ranks somewhere farther down the list than why they shouldn't really buy lottery tickets.... Religion has always encouraged a drive to look at the larger picture...beyond our day-to-day well-being, and that's not a bad thing. It seems to me that the evangelical roots of abolitionism have always been way overemphasized (mostly by the Christian denominations that did nothing but duck the slavery question), but those roots certainly were real nonetheless. When Christian socialism emerged from those roots as well, it isn't as though it represented the most conservative trend in the movement--and sections of it were as far left as any element of it. And we have liberation theology in our own day. There are certainly more pressing matters. ML ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
