“First of all, when Engels remarks that ‘the materialist world outlook is simply the concept of nature at it is,’ we must immediately ask him: ‘But how is nature?’ When Marxists deny the very possibility of the existence of a ‘Supreme Being shut out from the whole existing world’ it is clear that they regard all being as confined to the existing world or cosmos (i.e., to the whole existing material universe and not only our earth), and that they also regard each part of the Universe as on the same level of being with all the other parts by denying any part of being a ‘supreme’ position over against others. And with this denial of the Supreme Being Marxists necessarily proclaim the independence of what from the Christian viewpoint is only dependent created being, thus absolutizing the relative and deifying the universe, and thus distorting the relation of the cosmos’ unity to diversity.”
F. N. Lee Communism vs. Creation — pg. 35-36
1.) Engels protesting that Marxists simply take “nature as it is” reveals the primary presupposition of Marxism. Engels can not prove materialism without first pre-supposing materialism. However, in presupposing materialism as absolute they immediately run aground on the reality that matter is not eternal, has never been proven to have the properties of abiogenesis and the fact that they have no transcendent vantage point that allows them to make this proclamation.
2.) If all being is confined to the cosmos then the cosmos must be divine. At this point, the Marxist has embraced a kind of pantheism or panentheism. If the only thing that has being is confined to the cosmos then the whole cosmos must be divine. This contradicts their avowed atheism.
3.) If Lee is correct in saying that the Marxists hold that the whole cosmos has the same being then this explains the egalitarian nature of the Marxist. If all have the same being then all is equally supreme and equally lowly. This explains the claptrap “comrade” and “citoyen” nonsense.4.) If all is equally Supreme then there must be absolute uniformity. If the divine is all and all is the divine and if there is no ranking of being then the Marxist must, by dint of the implications of his faith, work for absolute uniformity in the social order. Hence, we get things like the push for Globalism and the New World order.
