[lbo-talk] RE: aetheism

[joanna bujes]

Jon
"For the sake of the present discussion, by "religion" I mean what most 
people mean when they say "organized religion," since it's the 
religions organizations, especially certain Christian ones, that are 
politically important in the U.S. Meditation by individuals is 
significantly different from "organized religion," but it is not 
politically significant in the U.S. at this point."

The current discussion partly related to whether the left needed to grapple with religious/spiritual issues other than to denounce them as "the opium of the people." In this respect, I am arguing that being able to speak of religious feeling/practices that fall outside of organized religion is  important.

Joanna