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“Christianity had, in Nietzsche’s account, emerged from the minds of timid slaves in the Roman Empire who had lacked the stomach to climb to…

— Alain de Botton

“. . . [Nietzsche] had the good manners to despise Christianity, in large part, for what it actually was--above all, for its devotion to…

— David Bentley Hart

“Marx concocted his heresy in a time in which greatly increased knowledge of nature had, as we remarked earlier, sent Nature’s God into the…

— Revilo P. Oliver

“Marxism was a simple substitute for Christianity. Replace God with Marx, Satan with the bourgeoisie, Heaven with a classless society, the Church with the…

— Arundhati Roy

“Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance of the…

— John Carroll

Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power

— Alexander Berkman

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

— Eric Hoffer

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a…

— Stephen Bayley

“Both capitalism and Marxism promised to point out the path for the creation of just structures, and they declared that these, once established, would…

— Benedict XVI

In his condemnation [Karl] Marx referred to institutionalized religion,that has precisely the function of anesthetizing men till they do not notice the in- justice…

— Erich Fromm

There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil;…

— John Carroll

Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity…

— Kurt Vonnegut