do you think dialectical materialism is irreconcilable with religion? does it matter if it is?
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I think Matt Chrisman's framework has something useful to it here. People need religion but church is a terrible place to get it. That religion describes our psychic relationship to the world. Science or Politics or the like describes our physical relationship to the world. Religion is how we feel about it and how we interact with others. In the west churches tend to use religion to constrain people so they are more content being utilized by capital. Lots of places in the east as well but in ways I am not equipped to speak on. What christman proposed was that "the revolution" loosely fills the same emotional needs for many of us as religion would. Kinship, belief in a project larger than ourselves, a willingness to work towards a goal we will not personally see, and opiate for when we need some spiritual medicine.