God
God is generic term denoting any intelligent subject that in some way (that is not available for humans) has abilities that greatly exceed those of a human. Actions related to these abilities are called marvels. The concept of existing of God (or gods) and marvels is used in many religions; some religions use the same terms (God and marvel) to name them.
Properties of God
God may look like a human (Jesus Christ, Buddha, Lenin), but also can be "non-material" (God - Holy Spirit, World Revolution, communism). God may be omnipotent (almighty), invincible, immortal and predicts future:
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true.
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Long live invincible marxism-leninism-mao tsetung tonight.
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Lenin lived, Lenin lives, and Lenin will live.
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The generation of those who are now fifteen will see a communist society, and will itself build this society.
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The immortal beacon of Comrade Stalin will forever illuminate the path on which the Chinese people march forward.[5]
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years.
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Recognition of a God
In many cases, the people do not recognize God(s). The New testament describes the society, that crucify (kill) God-sun without recognize him as God. The marxism's Gods have all the attributes of a God, but marxists (in particular, the bolsheviks) do not qualify them as gods. In the similar way, neither hitlerists not stalinists recognized their philosophy as rascism, they used term socialism (national in the case of hitlerists and international in the case of stalinists) instead.
Religions that do not use concept of God can be called civil religion, although even a civil religion may use the concept of a superior intelligent creation with some properties of God.
References
- ↑ http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm V.I.Lenin. The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism. Lenins Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, Vol.19, p.21-28.
- ↑ http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hua-guofeng/1976/09/18.htm Hua Guofeng. Memorial speech. September 18, 1976. Hua Guofeng Internet Archive, January 2004.
- ↑ http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/boukhonine2.html Sergei Boukhonine. Gods 'R' Us. LewRockwell, 2006
- ↑ http://www.yclusa.org/article/articleview/71/1/35/ V.I.Lenin. Tasks of the Youth League. Speech delivered at the third all-Russia congress of the Russian young communist league, Oct. 2, 1920
- ↑ http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-7/mswv7_296.htm Mao Tse-tung. Telegram to the USSR on Stalin's Death. People's Daily, March 7, 1953
- ↑ http://www.bible.com.ua/bible/r/1/15 Old Testament, Genesis, chapter 15, song 13
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