>>2933778>Not interpreting religious texts metaphorically or allegorically.Religion can be used as an alternative to the atomized, purposeless, neoliberal hellscape that we find ourselves in. When Marx said that religion is the opium of the people he didn't mean it in a bad way per se, only that it reduces pain, but at the time opium was the only pain relieving option. The challenge is to have a revolutionary religion that is not only anti-capitalism but provides an actual non-shit system. I think Reddit atheism was quick to reject religion but failed to consider the downsides of secularism, I think a mass line progressive religion could work.
I do think religion has the potential for the destruction of capitalism through the destruction of consumerism as a concept, but it's a difficult thing as religion has so much baggage.