Just to re-iterate gnome’s

Just to re-iterate gnome’s point. We need people that realise that the way society is structured is the result of peoples actions as they come together to produce the material things they need to exist, nothing more and nothing less. Belief in some super-natural force that steers it all would be counterproductive to say the least.

Actually that’s probably not quite right, I would have thought primtive hunter-gatherering people (i.e before the advent of private property and class society) would have had some type of religion, though perhaps someone can correct me.

I’m not sure if this is quite the case either. Most religious people will point to something to support their belief, even if it is just some vauge mystic ‘feeling’, religious experience or ‘miracle’.I’m not sure that a person that believes in anything without evidence would make a good party member anyhow. We need people who can critically understand the world and not get led along by conmen with their own agendas.