http://www.forbes.com/sites/billflax/2011/05/12/do-marxism-and-christianity-have-anything-in-common/Marxists require secular, materialist explanations for everything, but there is no scriptural basis for these severe restrictions on permissible avenues of thought. From this irreconcilable beginning, biblical doctrine and Marxist theory diverge still further.
Marx sought to replace the Christian worldview with a vile substitute. His rejection ran deeper than the oft quoted jibe, �Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.�
He admitted, �My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.� He thought Christianity reflected a palliative used by the rich to constrain workers so they wouldn�t revolt. To Marx, church and family presented obstacles to Utopia. The hierarchical society affirmed by Scripture prevented the rise of the proletariat.
Marx�s writings reveal undeniable, but antithetical parallels with Scripture, a deliberate replacement meant to expunge Christianity from society. To wit, Marx even employed religious themed legerdemain. Atheism, whether Marxist or Objectivist, relies on faith too, it just requires drastically different metaphysical assumptions.
The Marxist dialectic redefines good and evil. Sin changed from rebellion against God into striving for individual ends as opposed to the collective. The institution of property rights represented original sin.
