Religious Socialism

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"Everyone should be able to attend his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police sticking their noses in."[2]

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.

Types

Christian Socialism

Islamic Socialism

Buddhist Socialism

Pagan Leftism

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 a 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 yellow
  4. Add eyes
Color NameHEXRGB
 Red#AC0000rgb(172, 0, 0)
 Yellow#FFCD00rgb(255, 205, 0)

Relations

Friends

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?

Enemies

Further Information

Wikipedia

YouTube

Videos

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Alternative designs

Navigation

  1. Hong Xiuquan failed his civil service exam.
  2. Critique of the Gotha Programme