I doubt the truth of this statement. Christians are not given to idealism. God is not an Ideal, but a Person Who seeks to draw individual human persons into intimate relation and comunication with Himself. Socialism sees mankind as an abstract entity, as Mass Man. It cares not a hoot about individuals, who may be sacrified to the abstraction whenever "necessary."
God is Life in the here and now, as well as in the beyond of this world -- not some utopian future paradise whose manifestation here on earth is doubtful at best.
Great article, Lindykim. Certainly you are correct to observe the intimate connection between Neodarwinism and socialism/communism. The socialist ideas of man and history are both deductions from Darwinian premises.
Thanks so much for the ping!
I love you madly, BB, but you couldn't be more wrong about this. Marxism's "to each according to his needs" is pretty much the opposite of natural selection.
A source that most creationists accept, the Institute for Creation Research, has this article posted at their website:
Darwin's Influence on Ruthless Laissez Faire Capitalism. Yes, ICR links Darwin to good ol' capitalism.
It is beyond dispute that Marx wrote most of his work about communism before Darwin published Origin of Species, so there is zero intellectual influence of Darwin on Marx. Marx's final work, Das Kapital, came out later, but it makes no reference to Darwin or to evolution. All of Marx's earlier writings on communism were done before the world had heard of Darwin and his theory of evolution. So I repeat -- Darwin had zero intellectual influence on Marx.
And of course, vice versa. Nothing in Darwin's work even remotely hints at anything resembling communism. The two men lived at the same time, but they no more influenced one another than did Idi Amin and Ronald Reagan
I know that you don't think much of Darwin, but to link his work to Marx is just plain inaccurate.
Ooh! Now you've done it.