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The widespread prevalence of religion in an advanced society like the USA shows that workers are oppressed and alienated, but most of them do not want to admit it; even more, the concept of class struggle is not even mentioned in USA society; it is hidden;
The real illusion is that they think that they are free and they are not wage slaves, and that anybody can become rich by working hard, and when they become old, that dream never realises, and religion is the best alternative to cover up their oppression produced by the capitalist class.
Corruption is always blamed on the politicians or the foreign workers, but it is never blamed on the capitalist mode of production where a minority group of human beings take their own labour and become rich, and that concept is not mentioned either; labour stealing has been blessed by the legal system; it is not strange that a man like Trump could have been elected president
A rich man like Trump is worshipped like a god, because the rich themselves have said that they are not corrupt because they do have money, and corruption exists within the poor people, which motivates workers to go against other workers.
Evangelicals have created a new idea known as the gospel of prosperity, saying that God has blessed them, and pastors are allowed to have money and live like kings; therefore, rich people have also been blessed by god, the same old concept of the Egyptian kings and feudalist kings
But it’s also of interest how one blood cult from the ancient world – with all its fantastical beliefs and against all reason and common sense – still controls so many minds in the 21st century.
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It shows what Karl Marx said:
Karl Marx argued that religion exists because the material and social conditions that require it—oppression, alienation, and suffering—still exist.
He famously referred to it as the “opium of the people,” meaning it serves as an illusory comfort that dulls the pain of real societal distress without curing it.
His core argument about why religion survives relies on materialist philosophy:
Marx wrote in his Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right that religious suffering is both the “expression of real suffering” and a “protest against real suffering”.
People turn to the divine because their earthly conditions are intolerable.
Because capitalism and class inequality strip workers of their humanity and dignity, religion acts as a metaphysical balm. It promises a better afterlife or divine justice, which pacifies the oppressed and redirects their focus away from changing the material world.
For Marx, one cannot just wish religion away by attacking faith. He believed that “the abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness”. As long as the root causes of alienation and inequality remain, the “condition which needs illusions” persists.
“Religion is the opium of the people. It is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of our soulless conditions.”
Marx’s view on religion is different to the secular atheists
U.S. American evangelicalism is spreading here in the UK.
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They are fanatics and anti-scientific
But the US churches do not constitute a single church (unless they all unite and form one), so which one would be the state church and the state clergy?
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Most of them are Arminian, and the rest are Calvinist. There is no official religion. They claim that the US is a Christian nation, but it is not; there are more than 370 different types of religions. It is different to Latin America, where the catholic religion became the religion of the state and the religion of the nation, and the religion of the educational system and the court system, and signed concordats (concordato) with different governments, including dictators.
A “concordato” is an official agreement or settlement. The term primarily refers to a formal treaty between the Vatican and a sovereign state defining the relationship between the Catholic Church and the government. In civil or business contexts, it translates to an arrangement or settlement to avoid bankruptcy.
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In international law, a concordat is a binding treaty between the Holy See (representing the Catholic Church) and a national government. Concordat –
These treaties define the church’s legal status, rights, and privileges within the country.
The Lateran Treaty (1929): An agreement between Italy and the Holy See that established Vatican City as an independent sovereign state.
Reichskonkordat (1933): A controversial treaty between the Vatican and Nazi Germany regulating the rights of the Catholic Church in Germany.
Concordat of 1801: Signed between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII, seeking to reconcile French Catholics with the secular government after the French Revolution.
In Italian law and business, a concordato preventivo is a court-supervised insolvency procedure. Concordato Preventivo: Italy’s Pre-emptive Agreement for …. It allows a company facing a severe financial crisis or insolvency to avoid bankruptcy (fallimento) by proposing a restructuring plan or orderly liquidation to its creditors. Understanding Italy’s new concordato preventivo
Additionally, the Concordato Preventivo Biennale (CPB) is a fiscal tool that allows certain eligible taxpayers to negotiate and pre-agree their taxable income with the Italian Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) for two years, aiming to simplify tax payments. Concordato Preventivo: Italy’s Pre-emptive Agreement for ….
Derived from the Italian/Spanish verbs meaning “to agree” or “to settle,” the noun form (e.g., concordat in English, concordato in Italian) refers broadly to an agreed-upon compromise or resolution. In business or contract law, this can mean a pre-arranged settlement, an agreed price (prezzo concordato), or contractual terms (decisioni concordate)
Hollywood studios have made a lot of money using the bible to make religious movies, and the Vatican has made a lot of money too, propagating myths, including the cult of the Virgin Mary, saints, miracles and concordatos
The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City is one of the most visited Catholic sites globally, drawing up to 20 million pilgrims yearly.
While it generates immense wealth, including millions in daily coin offerings funnelled through underground collection systems, this money remains entirely in Mexico. The Vatican does not receive these funds, relying instead on its own distinct financial operations.
The funds generated at the sanctuary are managed locally by the Archdiocese of Mexico to support the massive daily maintenance of the shrine’s multiple temples, local clergy, social outreach, and administrative staff.
Like virtually all Catholic dioceses worldwide, the Vatican operates as an independent entity with its own budget, completely separate from the local collections of international shrines.
While the Holy See does not receive financial dividends from the site, the Vatican News actively promotes the global spiritual significance of Guadalupe, acknowledging its crucial role in the history of the Americas
A myth invented by the Spanish invaders to pacify the Aztecs. There are more than 30 Virgin Marys in Latin America, and all of them produce large profits
They can write hundreds of books and publish thousands of videos, but the reality is that Jesus never existed; his apostles never existed either; his crucifixion and resurrection never happened;
The writers of the Gospel never existed; and everything is based on a combination of Greek and Egyptian mythology, and the whole bible is a book of fantasies, legends and human inventions.
The Exodus never took place; Joshua did not exist, and Moses neither, and god never chose any particular people and never promised any land.
The new book titled The Bible Unearthed has proven everything; they did not find any evidence of the existence of any of the personalities mentioned in the whole bible
People have been fooled for more than 3 thousand years
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Bible-Unearthed/Israel-Finkelstein/9780684869131
Britain has state churches (Anglicanism in England, Presbyterianism in Scotland), and we aren’t generally obsessed with religion, whereas the US has no state church and is over 40% fundamentalist/creationist lunacy.
Any thoughts on that?
Also, the USA churches are not viable as a state church because they are not a single church, but hundreds of loose sub-protestant “denominations.”
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The USA ruling class has always used religion to carry its agenda and to win the support of the working class.
Whatever denomination they are, they are all the same, and all of them propagate hate and support wars and crimes.
The Episcopal Church in Latin America is considered to be a progressive church for its social stances, and it supported the liberation theology
What? Christian Nationalists want to be forbidden to kill? I can’t believe that.
Practically all the bizarre backwater killings in the U.S. are in the Bible Belt, aren’t they?
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I did not say that; the bible is full of killing and genocides. The killings take place in the South, the North, the East, and the West. They think that by adopting the Ten Commandments in schools, courts, and governement peoples will bring moral traditional values back again. They do not care about the killing when they support genocides and wars. They are against abortion, but they do not care if children die due to lack of food, medical services and diseases, especially foreigners. Most of them are old men who discriminate against women. It is a complete reactionary backward movement .
Killing is the national sport of the USA; there are more guns than inhabitants, schools and universities, and in some churches pastors carry guns too
Christian nationalists push to display the Ten Commandments in public schools to promote the belief that the United States is fundamentally a Christian nation. They believe that integrating these religious texts into classrooms restores public morality, counters secularism, and shapes the cultural and political values of the next generation.
Key motivations behind this movement include:Restoring the Nation’s “Moral Fabric”: Proponents argue that introducing the Ten Commandments and the Bible brings divine guidance and foundational morality back to public education. They often blame the removal of school-led prayer and Bible reading for broader societal and cultural shifts.
Claiming Historical Heritage: Many advocates claim the United States government is based on the Bible. They promote the commandments as historical documents that reflect foundational “Judeo-Christian” legal and social traditions, despite historical debate over these assertions.
Shaping National Identity: The movement views public education as a primary tool for shaping national ideology. Supporters believe that exposing children to Christian principles early on is essential to preserving conservative Christian values in the country’s future.
Changing Legal Precedent: Backers of these mandates aim to use favourable court rulings to weaken the separation of church and state, creating an environment where religious expression is more easily intertwined with government institutions.
Critics, including civil liberties groups and interfaith coalitions, counter that these mandates violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. They warn that displaying a specific Protestant translation of the text is exclusionary, coerces students of different faiths or no faith, and marginalises families who do not share those religious views. You can learn more about these legal and ethical debates on the ACLU or read further analysis from Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
Btw, the Protoevangelion states that Joseph was 80 when Jesus was born, and Mary was 13. (Not something publicised today in school Nativity plays!😀)
Viagra did not exist in that time, and aphrodisiacs do not help either.
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I told an evangelical pastor that Joseph, Jehovah, and Abraham were paedophiles, and Noah was incestuous, and Israel was bigamist, and the guy went hysterical. All of them, in modern times, would be in jail for criminal actions.The real historical account is that they did not exist either; none of the individuals mentioned in the Bible existed; it is a Hebrew invention.
This historian has also indicated that the Ten Commandments existed thousands of years before the Decalogue of Moses. The comedian George Carlin reduced to three
At law school, teachers teach that the world’s laws are based on Moses’ law, but in reality they are based on the Sumerian and Egyptian legal system, thereofre the Roman, French and English codes are not so advanced; they are old laws.The Nationalist Christians want the states to adopt the Ten Commandments, but those are backward, obsolete, and reactionary laws implemented in backward societies which did not resolve any social or economic problems; it would be better to adopt Buddhist principles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUoWWHCCdEE. ( It has subtitles in different languages )
This archaeologist and historical investigator indicates that the kingdom of David and the kingdom of Solomon never existed; therefore, according to his investigation ( and the investigation made by the University of Tel-Aviv ), the house of David never existed, and the so-called Jesus does not come from the House of David either; all the ancestors of the mythology of Jesus did not come from the House of David
https://www.cfr.org/articles/how-obama-administration-justifies-targeted-killings
How the Obama administration justified targeted killing
Joe Biden was part of that killing, and he also allied with ISIS in Syria
In the Middle East, Donald Trump and his warmongers are following the policy and the doctrine established by a Democrat president known as Jimmy Carter, and now the democrats are making opposition to Trump and pretending to be liberators, and they are also a bunch of warmongers, and the democrats socialists are collaborating with them
A doctrine known as the Carter Doctrine, the same policy followed by other presidents, including Ronald Reagan, George Bush sr, George Bush jr, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. All of them followed the same Handbook and the policy of gunboat diplomacy.
Obama deported more workers than Donald Trump; he was called the deportee-in-chief, and he also overthrew governments in other countries and killed leaders too, including Libya, Honduras and Haiti, and he imposed sanctions on Venezuela.
The president of Haiti was kidnapped, as they did with Maduro, and he was prohibited from coming back to haiti and; he was deported from Haiti, and he was forced to resign, and Zelaya was removed from his house; and Hillary Clinton was the Secretary of State.
Kennedy was the one who ordered the assassination of Trujillo, who was going to look for the protection of the soviet union, as Fidel Castro did in Cuba; all of them have been the same since 1776, including George Washington, who wanted to take over Haiti to stop the influence of the revolution on the black slaves, and all of them have used religion to pacify the wage slaves.
————————————————————————–The Carter Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy proclaimed on January 23, 1980, stating that America would use military force to defend its national interests in the Persian Gulf.
Driven by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Iranian Revolution, it shifted regional strategy to prioritise uninterrupted global oil supplies.
This landmark 1980 State of the Union address outlined that any outside force attempting to gain control of the Persian Gulf would be viewed as a direct assault on vital U.S. interests, to be repelled by “any means necessary”.
Cold War Containment: Designed to deter the Soviet Union from expanding southward through Afghanistan to dominate the region and its energy resources.Transition of Power: It marked the end of the U.S. relying on local partners (like Iran) to secure the Gulf and initiated a permanent U.S. military presence.Long-Term Implications: The doctrine laid the ideological and logistical groundwork for decades of U.S. military interventions, including the Gulf War, the Iraq War, and modern maritime security patrols
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Doctrine
The right-wing legacy of Jimmy Carter
The exploitation of American farm workers. Exploited under Republican and Democrats government. One group of wage slaves have been replaced by another group of wage slaves receiving lower pay.
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But are they any more naive by believing Trump’s horse shit than believing the horse shit the democrats feed them, implying that all or many of the problems that capitalism creates can be reformed away. In some ways, that’s a more pernicious lie than the one Trump is selling them.
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The same horseshit fed by the so-called Democratic socialists from the DSA, which are Trojan horses infiltrated inside the Democratic PartyMore than 75 million workers voted for the reversal of those social democratic reforms, which they call communism, and that they are the taxpayers and that illegal foreign workers are living like parasites off their backs using their money; most foreign workers are not entitled to those benefits, and they can not apply
They have been ideologically intoxicated with bourgeois propaganda, and now the reality is turning against them: millions of workers do not have medical coverage, or they can not pay the insurance premium because it is too expensive and the copayments are very high too; thousands are getting sick and dying, hospitals and clinics are being closed, and doctors and nurses are losing their jobs
Those social democratic reforms have existed in Europe for several decades, and they are not called communist measures; on the contrary, workers are willing to have them. Whatever in the US is called Communism in Europe is called social democracy
The capitalist class obtained their tax cut, their deregulation, and other benefits to increase their profits; the state is running out of funds, and they must borrow a lot of money to compensate; the state is issuing billions of dollars in fictitious capital to fill the gaps, and the so-called “national debt” ( debt of the capitalist class ) is increasing
In my political dictionary, it is called class conciliation
The DSA is only a Trojan horse inside the US Democratic Party.
The only thing they are going to do is distort the concept of socialism.
Most people believe that socialism is welfare, food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, reforms established by social democrats under other names.
Capitalists have removed all the funds to reestablish them, and the US is borrowing a lot of money to finance the state apparatus. The Treasury said that they are borrowing 155 billion every month
