Karl Marx
“If Marx, Bruno Bauer and Feuerbach come together to found a theological-philosophical review, God would do well to surround Himself with all His angels and indulge in self-pity, for these three will certainly drive Him out of his heaven.”
-- a young radical, unnamed
I seem to be killing off God a lot in my blog lately, but I guess that is what you get when you hang around 18th and 19th century thinkers. For a taste of Marx’s sting that would even drive God to despair of His own existence, this excerpt comes from his work on Democritus and Epicurus that won him his doctorate.
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As long as a single drop of blood pulses in her world-conquering and totally free heart, philosophy will continually shout at her opponents the cry of Epicurus: “Impiety does not consist in destroying the gods of the crowd but rather in ascribing to the gods the ideas of the crowd.” Philosophy makes no secret of it. The proclamation of Prometheus - “In one word, I hate all gods” - is her own profession, her own slogan against all gods in heaven and earth who do not recognize man’s self-consciousness as the highest divinity. There shall be none other beside it.
-- Karl Marx
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[Source: Francis Wheen, “Karl Marx: A Life”]
-- a young radical, unnamed
I seem to be killing off God a lot in my blog lately, but I guess that is what you get when you hang around 18th and 19th century thinkers. For a taste of Marx’s sting that would even drive God to despair of His own existence, this excerpt comes from his work on Democritus and Epicurus that won him his doctorate.
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As long as a single drop of blood pulses in her world-conquering and totally free heart, philosophy will continually shout at her opponents the cry of Epicurus: “Impiety does not consist in destroying the gods of the crowd but rather in ascribing to the gods the ideas of the crowd.” Philosophy makes no secret of it. The proclamation of Prometheus - “In one word, I hate all gods” - is her own profession, her own slogan against all gods in heaven and earth who do not recognize man’s self-consciousness as the highest divinity. There shall be none other beside it.
-- Karl Marx
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[Source: Francis Wheen, “Karl Marx: A Life”]