The crux of the distinction for me is that on the one hand, functional religions are informed by all the centuries of organic wisdom and tradition built up by a people, whereas socialism is a set of abstract, pie-in-the-sky utopian ideals that conceptualizes all humans as identical in their fundamental nature and malleable in their behavior.
To be fair: the people who came up with those ideals understandably did not foresee them being applied to rationalize things like urinating on each other at pride parades to own the Christians.
Then what about Socialism, which is basically voluntarily pooling resources towards some common goal?
sooo like a religion? you could call religion as "socialist" if you define socialism as "voluntarily pooling resources towards some common goal"
The crux of the distinction for me is that on the one hand, functional religions are informed by all the centuries of organic wisdom and tradition built up by a people, whereas socialism is a set of abstract, pie-in-the-sky utopian ideals that conceptualizes all humans as identical in their fundamental nature and malleable in their behavior.
To be fair: the people who came up with those ideals understandably did not foresee them being applied to rationalize things like urinating on each other at pride parades to own the Christians.
I don't see how you can use socialism and voluntary together in the same sentence.