1. Marx viewed all religions, including Christianity, as illusions. Despite recent efforts to reconcile Christianity with Marxism, atheism is a basic premise of the Marxist system of thought. Marx himself said that “man makes religion; religion does not make man,” and concluded that religion is the “opium of the people,” providing an illusion of happiness without true happiness.4Lionginas wrote:Taip ir žinojau, kad negali.
Marxism, in short, is a materialistic worldview; the consistent Marxist believes that the material world is the ultimate reality, that there is no God beyond the forces of history and nature.
Significantly, Marx’s main attack was not on the idea of God’s existence as such, but on God’s sovereign dominion over all things. He rejected the Christian doctrine of creation, because he realized that a Creator-God is also a Sovereign God. Marx’s philosophical hero was the mythical character, Prometheus, whose battle cry was, “I hate all gods.“5
Parodyk, kodel cia yra neteisybe, nes kiek esu ieskojes niekur nerandu yatingai kitu Marksizmo apibudinimu del Dievo ir religijos... Niekur.