Well, that is highly questionable dogmatic TRUTH too. I like what Bertrand Russell said : THE SUPREME BEING does not daily overwhelm us with EVIDENCE for this BEING's existence.
But get beyond college sophomore sophistry. Most socialists see only a mass movement with competent leadership finally making SOCIALISM a reality. The religious instincts of humanity are also a reality. Millions of working class people will never let themselves be led by GREAT
LEADERS who declare themselves GOD HATING ATHEISTS. Also the human race has had a long nightmarish experience with state supported intellectual tyranny. George Orwell's " Big Brother " in " 1984 " is clearly an atheist who like today's liberal Democrats does not even believe in objective truth : " Do you believe in God, Winston ? " . No, Winston did not believe in God . But still 2+2 did not equal 5 !
A viable SOCIALIST government will just leave the human soul alone and not punish and humiliate those enduring God Seekers amongst us and what remains of their moribund churches.
Your religious belief should be simply IRRELEVANT to Socialism. The incurable atheist HUMANIST Bertrand Russell did make just that point. I do recommend his classic " Why I Am Not A Christian " - but with a grain of LSD ( ? ) .
The " 1984 " passage :
[ “Do you believe in God, Winston?” “No.” “Then what is it, this principle that will defeat us?” “I don’t know. The spirit of Man.” “Do you consider yourself a man?” “Yes.” “If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand that you are alone? You are outside history, you are nonexistent.” ]
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