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Small Churches

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I can understand why the devs did not want players building churches, but then why include religion as a mechanic? Yes, I understand the primary option is to demolish churches and suppress religious needs by removing the idea from the new generations, but I much prefer the idea of building churches that are loyal to the socialist state and aid in the spreading of progaganda. Soft supression instead of hard supression.

Most marxists biggest criticism of the ussr was its anti religion stance, since it has nothing to do with marxism which is an economic theory and has nothing to do with cultural or religious topics.

@El lobo the fact that the rise in atheism is related to the rise in depression is actually scientifically demonstrated (the irony) by studies that show that people with religious or spiritual beliefs tend to score higher in happiness, and more importantly, they tend to live longer! Even if someone doesn't really believe in anything, partaking in acts of altruism is also demonstrated to make you happier and live longer. These studies are not hard to find.

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@AlfakleNaN You miss some of the most important historical factors for the creation and developement of religions: Guidance and Inspiration. No matter at what religion you look, they are filled with the rules nessesary for a society to function, like don't kill, don't steal, don't sleep with someones wife. Religions not only served as a way to explain the unexplainable, but also as a way yo promote order and coexistence, in a world where it was possible to commit crimes without consequence, as the technological advancements that keep our society safe didn't exist yet. Another important aspect is inspiration. It gives people hope and something to look forward to. I am not religiouse myself, but it is quite clear that the surge in atheism is one of the reasons for the strong rise in depression.

To an atheist, the emminationist prime mover argument is correct in that it shows that all matter is fundamentally unified (in a Parminidean way rather than Heraclitian absolute becoming/no causality between events or objects), but it's wrong in that it holds over from animism the mistaken attribution of soul to spirit (motion) in nature, there is no mind behind nature, minds only exist within brains. People can believe whatever they choose to, but when you understand the history of the development of these ideas, you understand how fundamentally flawed religious ideas are, while they may capture truths in a false shell, we can separate the true from the illusory. (3)

Just like Darwin structurally de-centered the traditional understanding of biology from eternal creation (from above) to historically contingent material forces (from below), Marx de-centers Hegel's logocentrism, placing the true source of meaning in this world, not in a metaphysical other world, just like how Aristotle 'took Plato out of the sky and planted him on the ground' by focusing on the potential for change between states of being in this world rather than the real world being descended from the ethereal world of forms. (2)

Communism views religion and all metaphysics as illusory, that ideas are the product of material forces, so religions are the vehicle for ideas that are a product of and support the socioeconomic structure, ancient religious epics are basically the encyclopedia of the ancient world, all of their theories of nature are bound up with myth. Socialist states allow religion, but promote atheism. In the spirit of the enlightenment, communism seeks to bring irrational unconscious socioeconomic forces under conscious control, to understand the laws of development of a thing, say society, history, etc. is to be more free than to be unconsciously subject to their action, Kantian universal heteronomy etc. (1)

@MarkPlierBR no, it is anti religion, it often doesn't outright ban it, but it want's to control it. I live 1 hour from the former iron curtain, and people who actually lived under it will conform you that much. Looking at communist nations or even at american socialists will do so as well.

Communism being anti religion is a red scare myth.