আমি এইখানে, এই বিষয়ে কোন তর্ক-বিতর্ক করুম না। জাস্ট লিংকটা শেয়ার করলাম। কোন প্রশ্নেরও উত্তর দিমু না। Why Marx was not an Atheist Andy Blunden. June 2006 http://home.mira.net/~andy/works/atheism.htm ''.....Points of clarification: Firstly, I am not claiming that Marx was religious or was in any way indifferent to or sympathetic to theistic ideology. It is more the case that he went much further than denying the existence of God. Consequently, it should be clear that I am not claiming that Marx was an agnostic, a position which is only bettered in its stupidity by those who practice religion just in case it turns out that God exists. Finally, in everything I say about atheism, the God whose existence I am talking of being denied has nothing to do with infantile conceptions of an anthropomorphic God who watches our every move and does favours for the well-behaved. This kind of conception disappeared from serious theology, let alone philosophy, centuries ago, and for a long time has been maintained only for the comforting of the ignorant and the disciplining of children. An atheism which limited itself to the denial of this kind of God is unworthy of the name. The atheism which I am talking about is the atheism which denies the existence of a God of any kind, including a Deistic, non-interventionist prime mover or a Spinozist Pantheistic God. It was this kind of atheism which Marx denied. Need I repeat however, that this does not at all mean that Marx was a Deist or a Pantheist, but rather that he foreswore all kinds of Theism, Deism and Pantheism, including those that clothe themselves in Atheistic or philosophical garb. At the moment, we face a resurgence of what is called ‘fundamentalism’, and in fact Christian fundamentalism has managed to capture positions of enormous power in the world, though they remain a small minority in the population at large. These Christian fundamentalists of course promote just such a childish conception of God. My point is that Marxists and atheists of all kinds will find themselves in alliance with the much larger forces of mainstream Christianity in opposing this reactionary stupidity. Fighting against puerile and intolerant dogmatism is not, in my view, anything to do with atheism. I hope we all agree on that. Atheism is posed at a higher level, so to speak. If you are an atheist, you are not only against Berkeley and the Pope, you are against Spinoza and Rousseau. A final point of introduction. I will quote Marx a lot, because my aim is to clarify Marx’s view, not my own, and specifically, to establish that Marx refused the label of ‘atheist’. It is not my intention to lecture you on my own opinions about atheism. Doubtless my views will come up, but that is incidental....''....