switchlogic:
When it comes to man made control systems Marxism doesn’t come even remotely close to religion
Marx might describe “Relgion” as the “Opium of the People”.
The Faithful might describe “Communism” as “Atheist Amorality” where anything goes, providing no one pulls you up for it.
Thus Blair “I did what I thought was Right” - doesn’t go to jail for “crimes against humanity” because his fellow breathren won’t enforce that upon him.
His latter-day “Conversion to Catholicism” is more about staying the hand of the Righteous that might have otherwise one-day moved against him.
Putin - doesn’t go to jail either, of course - because there’s no power on Earth that can put him there.
Atheists would argue that it is illogical for any intellectual to be a “Believer”, since they think they have proved already that God doesn’t exist, or at least his power down here on Earth doesn’t.
Believers might argue that it is ‘illogical for Atheists to be Moral’ - since there will be no reward for it whatsoever, neither in this world they live in, nor the next that they don’t believe in.
We, the Human Race though? - Are illogical creatures that cannot be ruled by God nor Machine - but can be destroyed one day by the actions of Either nontheless…
If you don’t believe in One, you’ll almost certainlly be destroyed by the other.
Even an atheist knows they’ll be dead in 100 years time - because the machine of meat and bone they use as a vehicle for this life - simply won’t last another 100 years for 99.999999% of us.
“Faith” is more about knowing what you can still do and act as a disembodied spirit, “Earthed Charge”, or “Liberated Volatile”. You can’t see the Radiation zipping around through space - but any scientist will tell you “It’s there - believe us when we say so!”
The chasm between “Belief” and “Actually Knowing” is merely one’s understanding of the Science in-between.
Corrupt or Distort that science? - You’ll add to the world’s problems, rather than dispense with them.
Corrupt or distort the Religion? - Same result, as the Inquisition all too clearly showed, along with other periods of history where things were perverted into monstrosities by “Politics and Ideaology”
Already we have seen the Church perverted, Governments perverted and now entire NATIONS perverted.
Nations - used to go to war with each other because some despotic ruler called them to do so.
NOWadays - countries go to war - because one country lied about another, and the retaliation is likely also based on lies, meaning that the only “Truth Told” during warring factions in the entire modern era - is that “Both sides are lying through their teeth”.
How does one get past such belligerance, and ever sign a peace treaty ever again from this point?
Imagine if someone like Putin offered to:
(1) Hand himself over to the Hague
(2) Disband the Russian federation, and cede all countries except Russia in it to the EU
(3) Pay a zillion rubles in compensation to each Western registered charity, using raw materials in lieu of cash when paper runs out…
(4) Consent to be murdered in his jail cell awaiting trial
in exchange for:
(1) Splitting Ukraine down the river so that the West goes with the consent of it’s local population into the EU, and the East goes with the consent of it’s local population back to Russia
(2) NATO is disbanded.
Now you’d think that the Western powers would “bite his hand off” for a deal like that - but they won’t give an inch - not ever!
THAT is why the war goes on and on.
Even the ridiculous T&Cs put on the table - won’t be enough if Putin should ever accept such draconian T&Cs - simply because they cannot let Putin who’s the most powerful Anti-Deep-State ruler on this planet - take a single inch in “Negotiated Settlement”, especially when it involves the Deep State giving up ANY power ANYWHERE whatsoever.
NATO is totally owned by the Deep State, as is the CCP, the Democrat Party of the USA, the Liberals of Canada, the Gangs of Latin America, the Animists of Africa, and of course the Bankers of the entire Western Hemisphere.
What small pockets of “Resistance” remaining are essentially the world’s remaining Nationalist and Right-leaning leaders, such as Orban, Putin, Modi, and already-overthrown Imran Khan, Jair Bolsonaro, and of course Donald Trump.
When the last leader of the Right has been forced out of office, the Deep State’s “Alliance” with the useful-idiot Left voting block - will come to an end, and people everywhere will suddenly realize, too late, that if the state murders them as a Leftist - they still die as quickly as they murdered the Right that fell and perished long before them.
“Question. Would you vote for us, and help keep us in power for the next 7 years, if it means we get to utterly destroy our political opponents of the Right… In 7 years time, we’ll be back for your souls at that point. Deal?”
“Oh Yes Yes Please! We hate the Religious Righteous soo much that you’re welcome to my soul, and my entire family’s too!” (Hehe I’m an atheist, so I don’t believe I have a soul anyways)