Truth or Consequences

"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'"--Psalm 14:1

Karl Marx, the patron saint of secular humanists, dismissed God as a myth embraced by ignorant fools. Marx derisively referred to religion as "the opiate of the masses" that blinded minds and ruined lives by hanging guilt trips around the necks of millions of people.

Of course, Marx believed that those guilt trips were caused by the God that he hated and steadfastly refused to believe in. Instead, the patriarch of Communism embraced evolution as the source of all physical life. To Marx, Charles Darwin--who dreamed up the atheistic theory of evolution--was a messianic figure who liberated modern man from the chains of religion.

Certainly, Marx had cause to reject religion as a useless institution legislated by hypocrites who lined their pockets at the expense of gullible people who were offered heaven in exchange for their money. Marx was born in Trier, Germany in 1818; a predominantly Roman Catholic town.

The Catholic Church in Trier was a corrupt institution that maintained a cult-like grip over the townspeople by convincing them that Rome held the keys to the gates of heaven. However, since the Catholic Church couldn't guarantee heaven even to those who faithfully followed Rome's liturgical traditions, no one was ever sure of what awaited them after death. That bothered Marx. If adherence to Rome's religious traditions couldn't provide anyone assurance of heaven, then what good was religion? And so, when Darwin appeared and penned his dubious theory on the origins of physical life, (On the Origins of the Species, 1859) Marx became an enthusiastic disciple.

There were some who strongly believed that Marx became a Satanist after he renounced his belief in God. One such person who suspected that Marx worshiped the devil was evangelist and Christian missionary Richard Wurmbrand who was brutally tortured by communists in Romanian jails because he refused to renounce his faith in Jesus Christ. Wurmbrand's suspicions were based upon a collection of poems written by Marx that seemed to glorify Satan.
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Whether Marx's poems provide the absolute proof of his involvement in Satanism is debatable. What isn't debatable is his hatred of God that truly bordered on the satanic.

Incredibly, even though Marx embraced evolution, he didn't embrace its tenets. Marx hated capitalism. He believed that all crime, poverty and violence resulted from "haves" stealing from "have nots." Marx believed that wealthy robber barons and rich bankers stole money from the working class which in turn caused social unrest among the poor. And yet, if Marx truly believed in evolution, then he would've believed that "haves" exploiting "have nots" was just a manifestation of Darwin's law of Natural Selection. Natural Selection teaches that the strongest members of living species survive by eliminating the weaker ones.

However, Marx's conscience--albeit flawed--was deeply bothered by the existence of human suffering. Unfortunately, Marx rejected sin as the cause of human suffering and attributed the consequences of sin to human suffering. And whether that was the result of Marx's exposure to dead, corrupt religion in his youth or to rebellion, the German pseudo-intellectual really got it wrong and made matters much worse with his misguided theories.

And sadly, millions throughout the world continue to embrace Marx's terrible theories. Sin and rebellion against God and His transcendent moral laws are the causes of human suffering, not economic inequality or social injustice. Those are the inevitable consequences of sin. Had Marx understood that, he and fellow atheist Friedrich Engels wouldn't have penned their horrible thesis; The Communist Manifesto that has been the cause of untold suffering, violence and mass murder for over 160 years.