(January 28, 2015 at 4:24 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(January 28, 2015 at 4:19 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote: When Stalin needed morale boosters during WWII he reopened the churches, and the pews fill up quickly. When the Soviet Union collapsed people started openly worshipping in Russia. The habit is hard to kill.
But it does need killing.
How, because I do not see state fascism as any better than religious fascism.
I think the only reasonable and humane thing we can do with religion is advocate science, ridicule and blasphemy. Otherwise force is no better than what either of them did.