Religion and the left

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Charles wrote:
>>I tend to accept that churchgoing might be overstated in polling and a
>>religious ritual for a minority. But I suspect that a large fraction of
>>non-church goers and rare church goers have a worldview that is religious
>>and idealist (idealist philosophy is essentially religious; see Engels'
>>_Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, introduction,on philosophical
>>materialism' s main struggle with religion ). That is, their idealism is
>>latent, but prevails when fundamental political and economic questions
>>arise in their lives.<<

Yes. And they must be trained in practical struggles + political theory to
grow _away_ from their idealism. I think both of us agree on this, judging
by what you have written.

Yoshie