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On Religion, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Lenin is a great thinker. The biggest mistake of Lenin and Marxist thinkers in expressing their opinions on religion is that they defend the view that everyone should think like us. I believe that a system in which different beliefs and ideas can live without classification should be a liberal order.
However, I agree with your views on the state having no religion and absolute secularism. The state should treat all religions and all people equally. Lenin argued that people would move away from religion as a result of understanding the Marxist materialist understanding of science. I think it would be a mistake to agree with the idea 100%. The point that distinguishes an idea and a belief is that religion is based on the individual belief system, there is a system that a person believes in. Describing this religion as a nonsense raises the question of the questionability of a belief and dogma.
Lenin says that social-democrats are atheists and that materialist science will save people from the hands of religion, which has become an opium. I think that religion is shaped around people, and the ideas put forward by Lenin on religion are far from reality and can only create a static situation with regional applicability.
He should say that the defense of the secular order, which includes the freedom of religion and belief that should be implemented today, should be an equality in terms of the state, and it should be able to create an order where people can even put forward different thought systems and belief systems.
With two different discussions on class conflict and religion, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin explains the party policies and the social democrats' view of religion.
Good reading...
-Furkan DOLGUN