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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.
http://stalinsmoustache.org/2014/11/12/how-to-be-a-communist-and-a-christian-stalin-on-peasant-wisdom/
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