Am I happy that socialism is infiltrating the Vatican? Or worried that Catholicism will infect socialism?
between Christians, Marxists
Listen, Papa Frank, you can’t really claim to follow the teachings of Christ without already being a little Marxist yourself.
Uh, has Mr. Pope read any Marx?
Marx’s view of communism doesn’t inherently ban religion. His view of religion was that it was a tool by the ruling classes to maintain the status quo against the oppressed, and that under communism religion wouldn’t hold any political power because, by his words, the conditions that allowed religion to hold political power such as inequality wouldn’t be present anymore. But he didn’t call for the abolition of religion or that religion couldn’t exist at all in a communist society, that was more of a Marxist-Leninist way of thinking.
Christian Communism is a real thing.
Marx literally wrote against enforced atheism in “the Jewish question”(a very unfortunate name in hindsight) which was a defense of Jewish communists keeping their religious and cultural identity.
Highly unlikely. Hell, many so-called “Marxists” have not.
