Christianity
Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity - Slavoj Žižek
Žižek gets theological.
According to a commonplace, Judaism (and Islam) is a "pure" monotheism, while Christianity, with its Trinity, is a compromise with polytheism; Hegel even designates Islam as THE "religion of sublimity" at its purest, as the universalization of the Jewish monotheism:
1970-1990: The war of counter-insurgency in El Salvador
Noam Chomsky on the ultra-violent war of the right-wing regime in El Salvador against grassroots resistance of workers, peasants and liberation theologists – socialist clergymen and women.
The crucifixion of El Salvador
For many years, repression, torture and murder were carried on in El Salvador by dictators installed and supported by the US government, a matter of no interest in the US. The story was virtually never covered. By the late 1970s, however, the government began to be concerned about a couple of things.
0400-2000: Northern Ireland - Is it a religious conflict?
Author's note; this is
an expanded version of a talk given to the Brecon Political and Theological
Discussion Group on Thursday 28th October, 2004. Alternatively it may
be read as a greatly condensed version of my book, Ulster Presbyterianism.
Bruno Bauer and Early Christianity - Engels
published May 4-11, 1882 in Sozialdemokrat
In Berlin, on April 13, a man died who once played a role as a philosopher and a theologian, but was hardly heard of for years, only attracting the attention of the public from time to time as a "literary eccentric". Official theologians, including Renan, wrote him off and, therefore, maintained a silence of death about him. And yet he was worth more than them all and did more than all of them in a question which interests us Socialists, too: the question of the historical origin of Christianity.
On the History of Early Christianity - Engels
From Die Neue Zeit Vol. 1, 1894-95, pp. 4-13 and 36-43 ONLINE VERSION: Translated by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, USSR, 1957 from the newspaper copy. Transcribed for the Internet by director@marx.org.
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The God Pestilence
Among all mental diseases which man has systematically inoculated into his cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.
The Commune, the Church and the State
From: Bakunin's Writings, Guy A. Aldred Modern Publishers, Indore Kraus Reprint co. New York 1947
THE COMMUNE, THE CHURCH & THE STATE.
I am a passionate seeker for truth and just as strong an opponent of the corrupting lies, through which the party of order -- this privileged, official, and interested representative of all religions, philosophical political, legal economical, and social outrage in the past and present -- has tried to keep the world in ignorance. I love freedom with all my heart. It is the only condition under which the intelligence, the manliness, and happiness of the people, can develop and expand. By freedom, however, I naturally understand not its mere form, forced down as from above, measured and controlled by the state, this eternal lie which in reality, is nothing but the privilege of the few founded upon the slavery of all.
