Today's conversation with a leftist

Commie: "I view organized religion as the single most destructive force ever unleashed onto humankind..."

Me: I realize that not everyone's as careful with words and ideas as I am but what a silly Marxist cliche. That's the leftist/revisionist version of history. I'm totally allergic to all organized religion, churches, popes, priests and dogmas but I know that, without organized religion throughout history, we would not have Shakespeare, Mozart, individual sovereignty, freedom of conscience, private property, the Declaration, the Constitution, the whole of Western civilization - or indeed Marx. I regard Marxism (and all the other leftist dogmas and cults that sprang from that) as "the single most destructive force ever unleashed onto humankind".