Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Wurmbrand Richard
Title : Was Karl Marx a satanist
Year : 1976

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Marx's Christian Writings Before becoming an economist and a Communist of renown, Marx was a humanist. Today one third of the world is Marxist. Marxism in one form or another is embraced by many in Capitalist countries, too. There are even Christians, yes, and clergymen, some of high standing, who are sure that while Jesus might have had the right answers about how to get to heaven, Marx had the right answers about how to help the hungry, destitute, and oppressed on earth. Marx, it is said, was deeply humane. He was dominated by one idea: how to help the exploited masses. What impoverishes them, he maintained, is capitalism. Once -this rotten system is overthrown, after a transitional period of dictatorship of the proletariat, a society will emerge in which everyone will work according to his abilities in factories and farms belonging to the collective, and will be rewarded according to his needs. There will be no state to rule over the individual, no wars, no revolutions, only an everlasting, universal brotherhood. III order for the masses to achieve happiness, more is needed beyond the mere overthrow of Capitalism. Marx writes: "The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of man is a requisite for their real happiness. The call to abandon their illusions about their conditions is a call to abandon a condition which requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, the criticism of this vale of tears of which religion is the halo." Marx was anti-religious because religion obstructs the fulfillment of the Communist ideal which he considered the only answer to the world's problems. This is how Marxists explain their position. There are clergymen who explain it in the same way. The Kev. Oestreicher (Britain) said in a sermon: "Communism, whatever its present varied forms of expression, both good and bad, is in origin a movement for the emancipation of man from exploitation by his fellow man. Sociologically the Church was and largely still is on the side of the world's exploiters. Karl Marx, whose theories only thinly veil a passion for justice and brotherhood that has its roots in the Hebrew prophets, loathed religion because it was used as an instrument to perpetuate a status quo in which children were slaves and worked to death in order to make others rich here in Britain. It was no cheap jibe a hundred years ago to say that religion was the opium of the masses. ... As members of the Body of Christ we must come in simple penitence knowing that we owe a deep debt to every Communist."3 Marxism makes an impression on people's thinking because of its success* but success proves nothing. Witchdoctors often succced, too. Success confirms error as well as truth. Failure is often priceless, because it can open the way to deepet truth. So an analysis ot some of Marx's works should be made without regard to their success. In his very early youth, Karl Marx was a Christian. His first written work is called The Union of the Faithful with Christ. There we read these beautiful words: "Through love of Christ we turn our hearts at the same time toward our brethren who are inwardly bound to us and for whom He gave Himself in sacrifice." So Marx knew a way for men to become loving brethren toward each other. It is Christianity. He continues: "Union with Christ could give an inner elevation, comfort in sorrow, calm trust, and a heart susceptible to human love, to everything noble and great, not for the sake of ambition and glory, but only for the sake of Christ." ...