Marxism’s Aping Of Christianity

“Marx took materialistic philosophy which taught that the force of (impersonal time + chance) history had decreed that certain things must inevitably happen, and married this philosophy to an intense personal, sacrificial dedication to make these things come to pass.”

You Can Trust The Communists To Be Communists
Dr. Fred Schwarz

There have been many who have noted that Marxism is the best example of a non-Christian religion which successfully aped basic Christianity. The way that Marxism did this was to take components of Christianity and place them in an materialistic, atheistic paradigm. For example, the idea of the inevitability of a humanist progress as coupled with the notion that that which is inevitable finds its inevitability as it is propelled forward by human implementation is actually the Christian doctrine of predestination combined with the doctrine of postmillennialism.

Christians, like the later Marxists who co-opted much of their faith, also believed in the idea that certain things had been decreed that must inevitably happen. The difference here is that in Marxism the predestinating agent is Hegel’s impersonal dialectical view of history as married to a Feuerbachian materialism, whereas in Christianity the predestinating agent was a personal creator God. Similarly, Christian, like the later Marxists who co-opted much of their faith, also believed that God ordained human agents to be the means by which His predestinating ends came to pass. The difference here is that in Marxism man is moving in terms of a predestination that is impersonal and is guided by time plus chance plus circumstance whereas Christianity always taught that man is moving in terms of a predestination that is personal and is guided by the explicit foreknowledge and will of an extra-mundane being. The difference between the two beliefs thus is only that Marxism believes in an irrational will that guides “progress” while Christianity taught a rational will that guides progress.

The embarrassment in all of this is that Christianity no longer believes in a postmillennialism that inspires intense personal, sacrificial dedication to make the extension of the Kingdom of God, which He has predestined, come to pass. Instead what we believe is some kind of predestination and eschatology where the story ends with God being defeated in space and time history. Believing in that kind of predestination and eschatology we are little engaged in sweeping forth with the Crown rights of King Jesus.
Without a vision the people perish. This has the consequence of leaving us as a people defeated by other predestinations and eschatologies of other religions and other gods. One of those religions remains cultural Marxism whose god is the State.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him. View all posts by jetbrane