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Thanks for the condescending remark and the lecture. But there is no need...  |
'Condescension" and "lecture" are in your perception, not in my intent.
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And Nietzsche's comments were not the only ones I had in mind. The end of religious faith was predicted by Marx and by Shaw and by all the progressives who believed (assumed) that the inevitable progress that was part of their understanding of history would result in the destruction of religious belief. Progress as an inevitable process is obvioulsy dead, as the Victorians understood it.
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From what I've read of Marx it appears to me that he was merely saying that the specific types of religion which -in his view- were byproducts of the economical circumstances he found, would dissolve when -in his view- these circumstances would necessarily disappear. I can't recall a single instance where Marx phrophetizes the death of religion
in toto. If you know of such occurence in his works, I'd be interested to know where.