Not sure if it violates Lemmygrad’s rules.
I agree about the removal based on inactivity, but not based on the theoretical content it could produce if active.
Hitherto men have constantly made up for themselves false conceptions about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged their relationships according to their ideas of God, of normal man, etc. The phantoms of their brains have got out of their hands. They, the creators, have bowed down before their creations. Let us liberate them from the chimeras, the ideas, dogmas, imaginary beings under the yoke of which they are pining away. Let us revolt against the rule of thoughts. Let us teach men, says one, to exchange these imaginations for thoughts which correspond to the essence of man; says the second, to take up a critical attitude to them; says the third, to knock them out of their heads; and – existing reality will collapse.
- Marx, German Ideology, Preface
Antitheism isn’t reactionary by itself. Liberal antitheism is, as everything liberal. Problem is, we don’t see proletarian antitheism much nowadays. Lenin called it “Militant materialism”.
We would have to see what is actually posted there since there is nothing so far and there’s not even a description in the sidebar. You should also stop freaking out about it for a moment.
Also, for some shameless selfpromotion, there is already community without taboo word in name !materialism@lemmygrad.ml
it might technically violate rule 3, because there’s no way a community that’s pointedly against religion could stay respectful towards religious comrades.
So, for now it’s probably for the best to just wait, and see if anyone even uses that community.
A clarification should probably be made, because undoubtedly someone will misunderstand. If someone wanted to make an Atheist community, they would be free to do so as long as they follow rule three. But because antitheism goes further and is actively hostile towards religion, it’s bound to break the rules. We have these rules to keep Lemmygrad civil, and ensure that comrades won’t feel disenfranchised.
Marx called religion the opium of the masses. In my experience religion has often stood in the way of class consciousness. If there is a benevolent god safe gourding us there is less need to radically change the world.
This is of course not always true. I have comerads who are inspired by their religion.
