And I use “normal” in scare quotes, because, according to whom, exactly, capitalism? Society? Yourself? Some of the “weirdest” people I’ve met in my life where also some of the nicest and actually helped me out. People you’d peg as “normal”? Well I’ve had my fair share of shit with them. I’m not about to put up with some reddit lord trying to score points with cool kid podcasters by throwing people who feed the homeless under the bus, fuck you very much.
firstly someone already responded to you
secondly nobody is arguing that fighting religion is going to lead to a change in material conditions or that religions do not arise from the material and social relations in society. The worldview provided by religions is patently wrong form a material analysis/viewpoint and many religious worldviews are literally roadblocks or counter to forces that want to change material conditions in a Marxist direction (Judaism is an ethnosupremacist religion as is Hinduism with its caste system). And I don’t care one bit about religious reformation, its simply an attempt by these institutions to adjust to maintain relevancy, whatever the motivations are to maintain that relevancy. The only thing I want to see is the material progress of a society leading to social progress and the inevitable irrelevancy of religions if that material progress were to happen.