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Christianity And Marxism

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A worldview is a pattern of ideas but also a pattern of beliefs, convictions, and habits that make sense of God, the world, our relationship with God, and our relationship with the world. Christianity stands out the most out of all the worldviews. There are many worldviews but there are six main ones we mostly talk about. There is Christianity, New Spirituality, Postmodernism, Secularism, Marxism, and Islam. Some are monotheistic, some are polytheistic, and some do not believe there is a God at all. They are all very diverse but some are very similar. Christianity can be compared and contrasted to all of the other five world views.

Christianity believes in only one God, meaning it is a monotheistic religion or worldview. Christians believe …show more content…

The father of marxism is Karl Marx. Marxism over time leads to Communism. Majority of the world’s population today lives with the consequences of his philosophy. Places like North Korea and China are communist because of parts of his philosophy. Karl Marx believes that all injustices should come to an end. Christians believe injustices will come to an end as well. Just like God told the Christians to share and help your neighbors, Karl Marx believes this also. He believed all things should be shared. But the Bible also tells us that men shall work for food. Marxism is also called the struggle between the haves and the have nots. The haves were the owners and businessmen and the have-nots are the poor and working. Marx’s philosophy was that the working should take over their masters business. This contradicts with the word of God. The Bible didn’t say what the masters were doing was okay, but in 1 Timothy 6:1, “All who are under the yoke of slavery should regard their masters fully worthy of honor, so that God’s name and our teaching will not be discredited.” You don’t have to take this literally, but the scripture means honor anyone in authority and that shows Christ in us. Like Christianity Marxism has a holy book. Christians have the Holy Bible and Marxist have the Communist …show more content…

Christians have to go to church to learn more about God and receive revelations on messages from God. People involved in New Spirituality don’t have to go to church. New Spirituality is a combination of easternism, paganism, and pseudoscience. They believe everyone has their own god within them. They are always in touch with their conscience. They believe in meditation, holistic health, psychology, karma, and gaia. Christians know they are not gods. There is only one God. Christians do not meditate on themselves but on the word of

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All knowing, all powerful, all present is HE. Belief in God as the creator of all things, human race, and ruler of the universe. This God is usually personal and relates to humankind in an intimate way. (Weider & Gutierrez, Finding Your Worldview p.63) Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all fall under this belief system.

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Religions with common geographic origins have been known to share codes of behavior, views of nature, and reasons for existence. Three great geographic center of religious origins included Southwestern Asia, where Islam, Judaism, and Christianity originated. Also, East Asia, where Confucianism and Taoism originated, and South Asia, which included Hinduism and Buddhism. Religions associated with South West Asia center on a single supreme authority and seem to be less flexible when it comes to interpretation of religion. Religions associated with South Asia and East Asia appear to be more philosophical and focus on relationships with nature and are more flexible when it comes to interpretation.

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Karl Marx, a ground breaking sociologist, economist, and philosopher, lived from 1818 to 1883. During his lifetime he propounded this epic sociologic perspective, the conflict theory. (McClelland) The conflict theory discusses how the rich and the poor have been fighting ongoing battle for power. The group in control actively defends their advantages.

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Capitalism and Marxism are vastly different. Marxism, also known as Communism, is a concept where all property is shared and everyone is paid based on equality. Capitalism is where property is privately owned, and industry and trade are controlled by owners. Capitalism is beneficial because it allows for a higher variety of products to be put on the market, more incentives to work harder, better work effort, and higher rates of innovation. Marxism, on the other hand, boasts equal pay and treatment for all people, government control of production to ensure equal work, and the removal of the class system.

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Introduction/Thesis A Biblical Worldview is your view of the world through a biblical perspective. Worldviews are very important because they influence everything you do and every decision you make. That is why it’s important to know your worldview and to make sure it is in line with God’s word. It is also important to know your worldview because it affects your witness to others about God’s salvation.

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Introduction What does it mean to have a worldview? A worldview is a set of beliefs about our perception of reality that influence our thoughts, morals, and actions. It can be anything from the lessons we learned from our parents and grandparents to our stance on economic policies. Now, what does it mean to have a biblical worldview? A biblical worldview is the lens we use to trust the word of God and how we apply it to everyday life.

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Communism was developed into a scientific theory by social scientist Karl Marx or also knew as Marxism. The Marxism state that the developing of the communism can divided in two stages, the primary stages is socialism and the advanced stages is communism. Base to the Marxism,

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Karl Marx was a German philosopher and economist in the 18th century. He is known for his book the Communist Manifesto that was published in 1848. Marx believed that a revolution of the working classes would over throw the capitalist order and creates a classless society. The Industrial Revolutions led to the proletarianization; his partner Friedrich Engels explained why the changes created by the proletarianization of the worker would develop into a huge problem for industrial societies. I do believe that Karl Marx’s vision of communism in the Communist Manifesto could re-emerge as a popular and workable philosophy of social, economic, and political organization.

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Capitalism, according to Karl Marx is divided into two major social classes: the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat. The Bourgeoisie, which is the minority of the class system, own the means of production such as land, machinery, factories and raw materials whereas the Proletariat, which is the majority of the class system, having no means of their own production and have to work to earn wage for a living. Karl Marx has his own theory that history is made up by class struggle which he mentioned in his book – Manifesto of the Communist Party: “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” (Marx and Engels, 1848) and had predicted that the Proletariat would lead a revolution to overthrow the Bourgeoisie. Karl Marx believed that there will be intrinsic conflict like exploitation, alienation of labour and commodity fetishism between both of the classes.

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