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> If anyone "killed God" I think the blame can best >be laid at the door of Marx and Engels. Hindus held >that all reality was an illusion (a view which is more >or less confirmed by modern physics). Christians >believed there was a God in Heaven, a Devil in Hell, >and we were more or less trapped "here on Earth", >waiting our death and transition to Heaven or Hell. >Those who built the cathedrals may well have felt the >God they could not see was more important - and real - >than the stones with which they worked. We lived in a >world buffeted by angels and spirits of one kind or >another, with God keeping, always, his personal eye on >each of us. > > We had been taught that our "consciousness" had >been given to us by God. But along comes Marx and says >no, all that we are, all that we think and believe, is >a reflection of the material world. As the world >changes, so does our consciousness. The reason the Old >Testament is less bloody in its later books is not >because "God has changed" but because human society >has changed and so the view of God has changed. The >reason the Christian Gospels are so different in their >view of God than the God of the Old Testament is, >again, because we have changed - not God. > > Marx erases God, the Devil, the host of angels, >all creatures of superstition and fear. We are >reflections of the world in which we grow up. (Part of >the "material environment" which shapes us is that >seemingly non-material framework of family, culture, >class, sex, or race into which we are born - yet Marx >says that these, too, have a material basis). To the >old question of whether we owe more to genes or to >environment, Marx would say "both are material aspects >that shape us". > > Marxism is clearly an atheist positon. Not >agnostic. It is not "uncertain" about God, but >emphatically clear that God is no more than a creation >of human culture. No wonder Marxists found themselves >involved not only in a struggle with the ruling class >but with organized religion (which are, after all, at >the service of the ruling class). But if materialism >destroyed God, leaving us alone on the planet, at the >mercy of storms and plagues and famines, without >recourse to hope of rescue by spells and prayers, so >it also meant that we could shape and change our >future. If the material world shaped us and our >culture, so, if we transformed the relationship with >the means of production, or the mode of production, we >would find we had changed the world itself.
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