Religion

Infrared and especially Haz considers religion as an important part of humanity and Infrared has it that religion is essential to have a better understanding of mankind, history and even more so in understanding the essence of Marxism.

Haz described communism as "innermost sacred belief held by mankind" while talking about its compatibility with religion., he considers theological questions are of decisive significance in the mediation of people's lives with a sense of meaning. Humanity cannot dwell at the precipice of extinction is a message which can be deduced from the questions pertaining to humanity's existence of both of philosophical and theological nature. However, religion is more fundamental feeling, it is more fundamental way of worship, it is a way to relate to the divine whereas philosophy is the expounding of this way into consciousness. This aspect of philosophy for Haz is abstracting from the vital essence of religion and turning it into a dead idol, a dead form. Haz tells that Marx has not attacked religion but on the contrary he has attacked philosophy.

Haz has it that religions are not about dogmatic beliefs in positive supernatural objects and when one understands religion through the lens of ontology which is to say that when religions are referring to God and and divinity they are speaking ontologically they are referring to ‘being’. A God is like one ‘being’ that is to say they're not referring to supernatural positive realities they are speaking they are trying to give expression they are trying to give a language to our reality in a more fundamental way. The idea that God is someone with whom you can attribute like human intentionality to common such as to be mad at God and modern thing is this idea that I’m angry at God - that’s an absurdity historically because what does the subject in question mean that he is angry at god? What does god mean then? When people talking about god they’re trying to refer to something which is related to ontology. Haz talks about Marx's "monotheist humanism" which can be ontologically understood where 'being' is the unity of opposites.

Monotheism

What is imperative about monotheism is that how it gives expression to unity of 'being' and unity of God, the meaning as such is mediated with singular 'truth' or 'good'. Plato's 'monotheism' is to tend to higher Platonic forms but is regardless an example of how all things are part of one reality or how they are part of something singular, Plato in his 'Republic' even goes as far as to conclude in that poetry should be banished from the state or 'ideal state' because poets being the imitator of nature are removed from reality and it gratifies the soul's baser part. For Plato, in his 'Republic' the good takes the form of state an 'ideal republic'. Further Plato says that poetry may be allowed to return when it would be appropriate to exist in 'city with good laws' or in other words 'ideal republic' of Plato because on the contrary was the situation where poets like Homer and others were respected and were considered important.

History of Abrahamic religions namely Christianity, Islam and Judaism show how there has always been the fight between paganism and monotheism, also how monotheism is deals with deviation from the 'good'. Jesus' test by the devil in the wilderness with the devil tempting Him at a time when He had fasted for forty days is symbolic of how Satan dares to employ its deceitful techniques on a great character like Jesus in Bible. Fasting and praying is to cut off from the world which has made a man's flesh indulgent in slothful routine and mannerisms which the devil tries to revert. Due to deviations from 'chief good' which monotheism has it as its essence we find pedophilia, debauchery and acts which are lower forms of humanity e.g. Sodom and Gomorrah which is found in Abrahamic tradition and also both in ancient Greece and Rome; Roman emperor Hadrian's love relationship with Antinous, a young boy; Zeus's affairs with various mortal women while Zeus transforming himself to animal or other form.

It is worth noting that religions such as Hinduism which are often regarded as 'pagans' or 'heathens' due to the outlook representative of many Gods actually have a metaphysical premise which has monotheistic underpinnings.

Paganism

Paganism and its problem is concerned with the fact that if there is no singularity of meaning and if there is no singularity of reality then there is no way to relate to humanity, to our origins, to our reality and meaning as such. Paganism divides the human heart. The subject would not see humanity as one and universal. It is the foreclosure of the singular divine, the singular truth and the singular reality. For Haz racialism is also a form of paganism as it does not see humanity as a whole but it attributes master race and its subordinates. Above examples of Hadrian and Zeus are just few of the many examples of paganism.

Guenon's 'World Egg' and Haz's Interpretation

Rene Guenon had this symbol of 'World Egg' where the light coming from the heavens at the top of 'world egg' gets sealed shut in modernity and at the bottom the strange forces seep into the world egg from below. And humanity gets hijacked and throttled in every which direction - every form of debauchery, corruption and evil begins to prevail when the ceiling gets shut that connects us to the divine. Every time the ceiling to the divinity, the divine gets shut closed it appears that the same patterns of the same kind of pagan gods prevail over humanity. For example, the perennial similarity between the Semitic deities and the European viz. Greco-Roman deities.

Every time we shun God, every time we turn ourselves away from God, every time it is done as such, the same demons come to prevail over the hearts of men and women.

Eastern religions

According to Haz: Dharma is actually in opposition to Greek philosophy- Plato, Aristotle and so on, the real tension is between dharma and Greek logos. Western Buddhism and most translations of Buddhism is satanic as Dharma is propped in opposition to Abrahamic religion. Historically, Dharma, when it was not in contact with the Abrahamic religions, it just had agnosticism, it's not that it was specifically against Abrahamic religion but that it's not concerned with that sphere of reality. That sphere of reality is usually monopolized by the state. What happens in China with Confucianism which is dealing with the question of morality and aesthetic of the moral will and so on. This is why Confucianism actually is kind of similar today with Abrahamic religions. Chinese societies have been secular, not secular in the modern sense, it was obviously very spiritual as it is intertwined with Confucianism and Buddhism and Taoism but it had a radically different relationship to religion than the monotheistic abrahamic religions and even the Dharmaic religions that were flourishing in the south. This way of relating to spirituality and religion are done through the concrete bonds of civil society and states. For example the rights of worship and ritual were just integrated into the totality of the state historically in China like the way in which people relate to the religion, express their religiosity is through the form of the state. Religion no longer becomes an autonomous form of effectual personal belief, it's directly expressed in the way in which you're relating as an individual to your civil society - it's woven into the fabric of civil society in the state. you're not going to have missionaries of the Chinese religion travel to other countries, it's just china, it's all through China, the relationship to religion is entirely different.  

On the question of paganism Haz says that any real tradition is not pagan. So, Zoroastrianism is not pagan and neither Hinduism nor Buddhism is pagan. Paganism is a state of ignorance - the only people who are initiated into paganism are the elites. It is never an openly avowed popular religion it's always a secret and selected elites whether it be the philosophers or be they something else who are initiated into paganism. But paganism is ignorance whereas Hinduism and Buddhism are scholarly traditions. This is a difference which one should keep in mind.

List of religions

Abrahamic:

• Islam (communist)
• Christianity
• Gnosticism
• Judaism (see also Zionism)

Indian:

• Sikhi (communist)
• Hinduism - an umbrella term for traditional Indian worship of various gods
• Jainism (parasitic and Brahminoid)

Non-theistic religious philosophies:

• Buddhism
• Plato
• Confucianism
• Taoism (dialectical)