It's time to end the split between Church and State altogether, enshrining one Church -- say, Southern Baptism -- as the True American Religion. That would kill orthodox religious belief for a long time, as in Europe.
On 2/24/07, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/24/07, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An established church is > suspect even by scarcely class-conscious workers. Under the slogan of > freedom from state domination, the church performs its best work for > capitalism. > > full: http://www.workersaction.org.uk/23Articles/23Morrow&Religion.htm Under the doctrine of separation of church and state, workers choose their own churches, so attacks on "the church," "religion," etc. in the abstract will not get very far, for most workers, who are religious, take such attacks for attacks on them and their faiths. But most Anglo Marxists don't understand different contexts require different approaches to workers' faiths. In the USA, Marxists might, for instance, aim for separation of church and science instead. For most denominations of most religions have no problem reconciling their faiths with science in practice and only Christian fundamentalists have trouble doing so. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
-- Jim Devine / "The truth is more important than the facts." -- Frank Lloyd Wright
