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
i think if i’d grown up in a catholic family i’d have been a huge theology nerd
anyway something something historical materialism as a mechanical turk concealing theology
@aescling is that a critique of religion or just society in general?
@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
@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
i am not a Religion Bad cat, particularly less so in very recent years; i think a lot of what i developed frustration with in what i grew up with was a general culture of incuriosity that is normal to contemporary evangelical culture