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Socialist Organiser1981 1981-11-12Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 12 →
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I FEEL I have to reply Linda Moulsdale's letter god-awful leaflet' in SO 60.
What had this leaflet to do with 'the Church"?
There is no way any of the established churches would come out with a line like that.
The leaflet was probably produced by one of the hundreds of small loony religious groups.
Far from falling apart, like the Anglicans and Catholics, many of these groups are still, tragically, growing.
To claim that religion is based on bullying is as ludicrous as the Russian Stalinist claim to have disproved the existence of God by not finding him in space.
As Marx put it: 'Religion is the (imaginary) heart of a heartless world' Gods represent all the things we want, things we feel should exist and don't. People believe in religion because they want to, not because they fear hell and the devil.
(Surveys have shown that Tillions of people believe in God but not heaven and vice versa).
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Both anarchists and Stalinists see religion as superstition or insanity to be bullied out of people with constant propaganda and intimidation.
It we take up comrado Moulsdale's crude attitude 10 beliets we don't understand we could end up with d liberal version of the Stalinist position.
Iraternally, PAUL BARKER London ers and organisations... the main target (of the recently introduced state of emerg(And it would have been useful if the article had found space for the minor