Their high priest Christopher Hitchen's yellow book was titled " God Is Not Great - how religion poisons everything ". Being a " socialist " makes some demands on your emotional intelligence. Nothing can be dumber than flouting the religious instincts of the " common people ".
The biggest mistake of the old Soviet Union was not " socialism " but arrogantly making itself officially atheist. I note under Putin the Russian Orthodox Church can breathe again. Long before 1917 the Russian novelist Dostoevsky in " The Possessed " had a profound insight into the Russian " soul " - its religious nature.
Capitalist America presently " inspired " -not by any of the world's great religions - but by the militant atheist Ayn Rand - has lost its soul to her " Virtue of Selfishness ". Our national religion in " The Culture of Narcissism " is the worship of the Moloch Money God. In that god WE TRUST .
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