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ciety is just "a herd of animals." Man is a soulless, dull creature, a "man-
animal machine," and quite worthless. The logic of "There are many in
the herd, so it doesn't matter if one is lost" rules the day. The handi-
capped and those unable to work are cast out of the herd and left to die.
They are seen as sick and harmful. There are no feelings of compassion,
mercy or loyalty. Since they believe that life stops at death, they cling to
life with all their power. Since everyone is seen as an enemy and rival in
the fight for survival, everything is held against them, and hatred pre-
vails.
It is natural that communist ideology, which creates a society with
no human or spiritual values or morality, should also be inimical to re-
ligion. Virtues such as morality, love, affection, compassion, self-sacri-
fice, cooperation and forgiveness have no place in the model aimed at
by communism. When one looks at the writings of Marx, Engels, Lenin,
Stalin, Trotsky, Mao and other communist ideologues, one can see this
stated quite clearly. Due to his ignorant mentality, Marx described reli-
gion as "the opium of the people" and a culture formed by the ruling
class to keep the poor asleep. Moreover, he suggested that religious be-
liefs would have to be eliminated if communism was to be achieved.
In Lenin's article "Socialism and Religion," published in 1905 in the
Russian magazine Novaya Zhizn, he foolishly described religion as a
"fog" that needed to be supposedly dispersed, and set out the atheist
propaganda that communists needed to set in motion. In his "The
Attitude of the Workers' Party to Religion," published in the magazine
Proletary in 1909 as leader of the Russian Social Democratic Party (later
the Communist Party), Lenin wrote:
The philosophical basis of Marxism, as Marx and Engels repeat-
edly declared, is dialectical materialism, which has fully taken over
the historical traditions of eighteenth-century materialism in
France and of Feuerbach (first half of the nineteenth century) in
Germany a materialism which is absolutely atheistic and posi-
tively hostile to all religions. "Religion is the opium of the peo-
ple." This dictum by Marx is the corner-stone of the whole
Marxist outlook on religion. 5