{"id":249449,"date":"2023-12-27T10:10:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T10:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=249449"},"modified":"2023-12-27T10:10:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T10:10:26","slug":"the-christ-cult","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/the-christ-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christ cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Christmas has come and gone. Even if for most people there\u2019s nothing particularly religious about it any more, they and the media still pay lip service to a story of miracles from 2000 years ago to be remembered and celebrated by pious words and empty ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>How entirely contradictory the cult of Christ \u2013 and all religion and superstition &#8211; are to the fact that humans make their own history with the material around them and to the socialist idea of a democratic majority using their political power to bring in a new wageless, moneyless world system of voluntary cooperation and free access to all goods and services. When we do that, we&#8217;ll truly have something to celebrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-249449","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/249449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}