John Gray often speaks of Marxism and certainly the rest of the post-Judeo-Christian eruptions as the expressions of the mothership ideology. But there is also another curious similarity. Religion like Marxism makes the perfect sense as a form of individual expression, creative art. Both Marxism and Religions describe our inner and outer world and the predicament of inequality with staggering precision. But when a religion or Marxism morph into the founding dogmas governing human tribes or societies, they all start to rely on suppression of individuallity, the despotic rule of totalitarian oligarchy, the abuse of free expression, the typical arsenal of indoctrination and identity mongering. It seems that both Marxism and religion are destined to flourish in rebellious theory only.
And the telling sign are the so-called western communists and the religious romantics who never experienced a dark commune on the inside.
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