From An Anarchist Bible. 1.

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For those of us raised within the Christian tradition, the words of Saul of Tarsus, AKA St. Paul, are familiar and often remembered - his passage from the 13th Chapter of his 1st letter to the church at Corinth is considered a masterpiece, both in literary terms, and also for its appeal to our better nature, that we above all must love. :

“If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. ”

For those of us who have come to embrace the Anarchist movement as a politics of the future, as a means of resistance to the tyranny of this generation's self-serving political leadership, their use of technology as a means to enthral the human spirit, and perhaps more importantly against that invisible hand, that almost irresistible structuring of our lives in service to an economy that no longer serves us, but calls us to be replaceable servants to that inhuman master named profit, religion is often thought a mere corruption of the innate human desire to understand and master the choices we face under the burning sun and the emptiness of  the night time sky and its faint stars. There can  be little doubt that with its easy assurances and history of violence, religions, all religions have functioned in this way, but whether we take love or justice at the centre of our endeavours, we can not be far from what is needed in these days.