thinking about it and i’m kind of surprised that for a centuries-old critique, the analysis of religion as alienating in that it mediates the relationships people have with one another is very new to me
@aescling yeah, i realize historically religion has been the target of this critique because historically religion has been the largest and most prominent social structure, but that hasn't been the case since the development and entrenchment of state biopower in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
@aescling like for every social critique of religion there is a social critique of nationalism which is two times worse
@aescling in fact i might argue that most critiques of religion are in fact critiques of religious nationalism
@Lady it is applicable to many things but i understand it to be the root of the critique of religion in the German philosophy which Marx was working off of