[997] Bax, _The Religion of Socialism_, p. 90. [998] _Ibid._ p. 98. [999] Blatchford, _God and My Neighbour_, p. 194. [1000] _Ibid._ p. 197. [1001] _Ibid._ p. 124. [1002] Blatchford, _God and My Neighbour_, pp. 135, 136. [1003] Blatchford, _Not Guilty_, pp. 11, 12. [1004] Blatchford, _God and My Neighbour_, p. 122. [1005] _Ibid._ p. 137. [1006] _Fabian Essays in Socialism_, p. 27. [1007] _The Deadly Parallel_, October 1907. [1008] Wheatley, _How the Miners are Robbed_, p. 13. [1009] Davidson, _Gospel of the Poor_, p. 149. [1010] _Times, Municipal Socialism_, p. 42. [1011] Schaeffle, _Quintessence of Socialism_, p. 116. CHAPTER XXVII THE RELIGION OF SOCIALISM We have seen in Chapter XXVI. that Socialism makes war upon Christianity and upon religion, that it strives to eradicate religion out of the people's hearts. Now the question arises: How do Socialists propose to fill the void? What do they intend to put into the place of that religion which they wish to destroy? "Socialism involves a change which would be almost a revolution in the moral and religious attitude of the majority of mankind."[1012] "Religion will share the fate of the State. It will not be 'abolished,' God will not be dethroned, religion will not be 'torn out of the people's hearts.' Religion will disappear by itself without any violent attack."[1013] "The establishment of society on a Socialistic basis would imply the definitive abandonment of all theological cults, since the notion of a transcendent god or semi-divine prophet is but the counterpart and analogue of the transcendent governing class. So soon as we are rid of the desire of one section of society to enslave another, the dogmas of an effete creed will lose their interest. As the religion of slave industry was Paganism; as the religion of serfage was Catholic Christianity, or Sacerdotalism; as the religion of Capitalism is Protestant Christianity or Biblical dogma, so the religion of collective and co-operative industry is Humanism, which is only another name for Socialism."[1014] "The religion of the future is to be the religion of the common life. It will have for its ideal the complete organic unity of the whole human race. And this religion will be a political religion. It will be a religion which will seek to realise its ideal in our industrial and social affairs by the application and use of political methods. The popular conception of politics as something apart from religion is a cunning device of the devil to serve his own ends; just in the same way as the popular impression that politics is something apart from bread and butter, and shorter hours, and better homes, and better industrial conditions. There can be no separation between politics and religion. The religion of the future will be an application of the moral truths of religion through politics to our industrial and social conditions."[1015]