I personally think trying to work with them instead of against them in places were they are deeply integrated with the population would be the obvious choice.

I am ofcourse talking exclusively about the Catholics only and not the Orthodox or Evangelist.

PD, im not religious. Im a Budhhist, but i dont think of it as a religion.

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[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Probably not. Very, very, very unlikely. An institution with 1000 years of reactionary history is not going to change. The teachings of Jesus are for the most part irrelevant in this discussion. As an institution the Catholic Church does not and has never taken them all that seriously. I would be less surprised to see Orthodox support for communism than Catholic, though both are unlikely, as i said, for historical reasons.

Yes communists should work with religious people and not be hostile to religion, but at the same time separating the religion from the inherently reactionary institutions like the Church. Religious people can be progressive and revolutionary, sometimes even individual clerics can be revolutionary, but institutions have their own agendas and raisons d'être, which are probably not compatible with our own.