David Horowitz had this to say about scientific materialism's theology and creation account: "The victorious radicals had proclaimed a theology of Reason in which equality of condition was the natural and true order of creation. In their Genesis, the loss of equality was the ultimate source of mankind's' suffering and evil…The ownership of private property became a secular version of original sin. Redemption…was possible only through the Revolution that would abolish property and open the gates to the Socialist Eden---to paradise regained." ("The Politics of Bad Faith" www.discoverthenetwork.com)
When I first read this, I was disappointed because I usually agree with most of what David Horowitz has to say. Then I realized he's just equating left wing secular fanatics with right wing religious fanatics. He's spot on.
Horowitz thinks creationism is a pseudoscience. See post 21 here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1576420/posts?page=21#21
He is being cited here, like Swift is, as an intellectual pretension. I was taught not to do this in high school. Some people's prose hasn't risen that high.