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A listener asks if the best strategy for the left is to ditch all forms of religion. Should all leftists be atheists? The left needs allies. It needs solidarity. Attacking people's religion is a quick way to alienate people. It is better to inform religious folks how their faith is being corrupted by the forces of capitalism. We stream our live show every day at 12 PM ET. We need your help to keep providing free videos! Support the Majority Report's video content by going to http://www.Patreon.com/MajorityReport Watch the Majority Report live M–F at 12 p.m. EST at youtube.com/samseder or listen via daily podcast at http://Majority.FM Download our FREE app: http://majorityapp.com SUPPORT the show by becoming a member: http://jointhemajorityreport.com We Have Merch!!! http://shop.majorityreportradio.com LIKE us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/MajorityReport FOLLOW us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/MajorityFM SUBSCRIBE to us on YouTube: http://youtube.com/SamSeder Image Credit, André Rakvåg https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrer/3437610373 https://creativecommons.org/publicdom... Image has been cropped and color has been altered. Sam Seder: Glass Eagle: "I disagree about atheism not being helpful for the left." Okay. "Promoting belief in a paradise afterlife is a perfect way to also promote apathy about suffering and injustice in this life even in your own. and that is such a powerful tool for capitalism also militarism. It's surprising that anyone on the left wants to be associated with it. Religion is also great for legitimizing and passing on bigotry. So way atheism can be helpful in making people aware of who what and served by religious messaging and helping people recognize fundamentalism and other BS." I mean that may be the case I will tell you what Desmond Tutu said to Janeane and me when he came on to the show. Which was religion is like a knife it can be used to spread butter or it can be used to be you stick in your gut. Matt Lech: Right. Like I mean we saw how the sort of new atheist project just evolved into basically justifying intervention against Muslim countries using military force. Like I agree that religion can be used for reactionary purposes and often is. And basically is like the psychological operations for the state in a lot of cases. Throughout history but also like when it comes to going after individuals who might subscribe to that religion it's just not helpful to attack their religions to stick it to capitalism. And maybe talk about how their religion is being attacked by capitalism and malformed by it. But don't attack religion as a way to like illustrate capitalism. Sam: Right. And I also don't see a relationship necessarily between how less religious of a country we've become and the furthera ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09HfBoEBf20

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