I’m talking about deeply held beliefs you have that many might disagree with here or deem to be incompatible with Marxist ideology. I’m interested because I doubt everyone here is an ideological robot who all share the same uniformity in belief

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    dialectical materialism is not a compass it is a method it doesnt tell u arbitrary values with no justification that some dude thousands of years ago thought were good or benefited him, it allows u to actually think for yourself and analyze things, and if it a fixed compass for you, always pointing the same way with no understanding or reason then u arent using it you simply picked an application of it by someone you licked and follow it dogmatically and yes it IS offensive to suggest everyone else does the same. and sure who knows what religion will look like in a classless society but the imperialist slaver and misogynist propaganda wont magically disappear the religious text that it is in so unless people decide to dump the very foundational ideas and texts and costumes of the most popular religions that exist right now it will always be a threat to said society.

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      It feels like you are willfully misinterpreting what I am saying tbh. Compass here is operating as a metaphor, and I don’t like the implication that I am somehow perverting dialectical materialism because you don’t like my turn of phrase. Human beings aren’t computers, we have subjective experience that amounts to more than just logical operation. Regardless of whether we are applying science or not, there is still an experiential aspect of everything we do. And when did I say I was talking about modern popular religions when I was merely talking about religion in the abstract? I was clearly not suggesting that Christianity should be incorporated into Marxism or encouraged in socialist society or something