George Walford: Through Religion to Anarchism

From Raven #25 (1994) is this article, which recognises that some people come to anarchism through religion:

http://gwiep.net/wp/?p=424

Although it would be going too far to say that all anarchists oppose all forms of religion, we can safely say that nearly all of them would like to do away with the authoritarian versions. Are they justified? Certainly this form of religion has done a great deal of harm, but after taking full account of this we have to add, for a complete picture, that it helped in the emergence of the anarchist movement. It did not set out to do this but it did do it. And, in spite of itself, it is still helping people to become anarchists….

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