Religious Socialism

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“The gospel takes away our right to discriminate between the deserving and undeserving poor.”

Dorothy Day

Religious Socialism is an ideology that seeks to merge religious values with a socialist system, deeming it to be the most fitting of their given religion's charitable values. It is located in the left half of the political compass, and is (usually) culturally conservative but this isn’t always the case.

Personality and Behavior

Very religious and at the same time remains faithful to the socialist system. He doesn't get along with atheists and avoids his communist relatives who hate him.

Variants

Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was a state in China from 1851 to 1864. It was formed by Hong Xiuquan, who claimed he was the younger brother of Jesus and tried to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and install an actually heretical Christian Theocracy. While not necessarily communist, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom implemented numerous policies similar to communism, such as abolishing private property and the creation of a classless society. The Taiping inplemented a large number of sweeping reform to make China more like the God Worshipping Society. These included:

• The subject of study for the state examinations for officials changed from the Confucian classics to the Bible.
• Private property was abolished.
• Land was redistributed back to the peasants.
• The solar calendar was replaced by the lunar calendar.
• Foot binding was banned.
• Society was declared classless.
• The sexes were declared equal and women could take the state examinations for the first time in Chinese history. Women served in the military, including Hong Xuanjiao, Su Sanniang and Qin Ersao.
• The sexes were rigorously separated and entire military divisions were created for just women and, until 1855, married couples weren't allowed to have sex, unless it was for making children.
• The queue hairstyle, which was mandated under the Qing Dynasty, was abandoned.
• Opium, gambling, tobacco, alcohol, polygamy (including concubinage), slavery, and prostitution. All of these carried death penalties.

Gan Prince Hong Rengan also proposed some more reforms, which he got the permission of the Heavenly King to implement, but the Qing Dynasty, British Empire and Second French Empire destroyed the Taiping. The reforms included:

• Making 1 railway for every province.
• Adopting steamships.
• Establishment of private banks.
• Granting of 10 year patents for major inventions, 5 year patents for minor inventions.
• Establishment of a national postal service.
• Promotion of mineral exploration.
• Introduction of governmental investigative officers.
• Introduction of independent state media officers for reporting the news.
• Institution of district treasuries and paymasters to manage finances.

The war between the Qing Dynasty and Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would be known as the Taiping Rebellion, and would result in between 20-30 million deaths, making it one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history, second only to World War 2. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom issued "The Land System of the Heavenly Dynasty". This system tries to abolish feudal land ownership and distribute land equally according to population and age. But today's historians believe that it is utopian and wrong, because this system is based on the average of small-scale peasant economy.

How to Draw

Flag of Religious Socialism

1. Draw a ball
2. Color it red
3. Draw a silhouette of a hand with an eye in white
4. Add eyes

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Red	#AC0000	rgb(172, 0, 0)
	White	#FFFFFF	rgb(255, 255, 255)

Relations

Friends

• Christian Socialism - My Christian form.
• Islamic Socialism - My Muslim form.
• Buddhist Socialism - My Buddhist form.
• Labour Zionism - My Jewish form.
• Socialism - I'm you but religious!
• Conservative Socialism - I like what I see here!
• Bundism - Nice.
• Proutism - My market based, environmentalist Hindu freind.
• Liberation Theology - The perfect tool for religious syncretism. Theologies of all religions coming together to fight injustice and oppression everywhere!
• Vperedism - God is humanity in the future, and socialism is the best way to get there.
• Liberal Socialism - A moralistic moderate socialism which isn’t strictly anti-theistic? Based!

Frenemies

• Reactionary Socialism - Religion is good, but feudalism is too much.
• Distributism - Opposes capitalism, but also socialism. Fails to see the connection socialism and religion share.
• Burmese Way to Socialism - Combining socialism with religion is cool, but you’re pretty crazy.
• Marxism - Religion is not a opium! And why do you refer to me as a temperance fanatic?
• Chinese Theocracy - Although you're not too conservative in economy or culture, but you're still one of the most conservative theocracies in politics, so it's really hard to reform you.

Enemies

• Marxism–Leninism - We’re both socialists, but why do want to kill me?
• State Atheism - No.
• Neoliberalism - Sinful capitalist who is the corrupter of values.
• State Liberalism - Capitalist who suppresses religion. Quite possibly my worse nightmare.
• Fordism - I take that back. You are the worst thing imaginable.
• Ingsoc - Oh, god make it stop!
• Esoteric Fascism - WHAT THE FUCK is this?

Further Information

Wikipedia

• Mazdak

YouTube

Videos

• Why Communism is a Failed Religion by Whatifalthist

Gallery

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Alternative designs

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  God Worshipping Society