I hear a lot of people talk about how we need to look at religion from a materialist lens and that religion is incomparable with socialism. But I think we need to seperate the two. Religion is about the metaphysical so it’s hard to look at it from a materialist lens. While politics deals with materialist matters, so it’s necessary to view it with a materialist lens. And it’s not like atheism is fully materialist either, with ‘nothing after death’, and ‘universe starting without a god’ being metaphysical explanations as well. And humans are naturally spiritual and to deny that, makes it harder for socialism to be accepted by people. But of course that doesn’t mean we should tolerate the reactionary aspects of religion. We should combat it whenever necessary.

What’s your opinion?

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    with ‘nothing after death’, and ‘universe starting without a god’ being metaphysical explanations as well.

    Uh, no? This is such a weird, confused argument. Atheism is simply the lack of belief in a god, which is the natural, intuitive stance to hold in the world we live in where there is no evidence of any gods. No “metaphysical explanations” required. Show me evidence of a god and I’ll change my view, just like with everything else.

    And humans are naturally spiritual

    I mock people who bring up “human nature” arguments in any other circumstance, I don’t know why it would be different here. You’re not “naturally spiritual” you’ve been indoctrinated into a system of beliefs by people motivated by their material interests.