[lbo-talk] Marxism and Religion

[Chuck]

joanna wrote:
>>I
>>think what most religious Americans get from their own
>>participation in religion, apart from the usual vague
>>comfort of the feeling that someone is watching over
>>them in a benign sort of way, is a sense of community,
>>maybe even a real community, that is hard to find
>>elsewhere.
>> 
>>
> 
> Absolutely, I think Woj has spoken of this most convincingly.

Then why don't Americans build community based on reality instead of 
misguided beliefs in Santa Claus?

I'm flabbergasted at the circle jerk for religion going on here. I have 
to wonder what you all would say if I started defending religious belief 
in creationism as something that helps comfort people.

Chuck0