[lbo-talk] You do realize, I hope, that religous expression isn't going anywhere...don't you?

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Charles Brown" <cbrown at michiganlegal.org>
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>Carl Remick
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>Religion has fueled much of history's most celebrated slaughter:  the
>medieval Crusades, the European Protestant-Catholic wars of the 16th-17th
>centuries, recent conflict between Hindus and Moslems on the Indian
>subcontinent, fighting between Buddhists and Hindus in Sri Lanka, the
>mishegaas that is Northern Ireland, etc. ad nauseam.
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>Carl, what about the approach that religion is superstructure in these
>events , and the real "fuel" is underlying class struggles ? How might that
>impact assessment of religion in today's situation ?

Yes, that is another aspect of religion's baneful impact on humankind.  
Religious delusions can create pointless divisions among the economically 
disadvantaged and blind them to their common material interests.

Carl