The Evolution Of Marx’s Religious View

There is a complicated process of evolution in Marx’s view of religion.He gradually change from a Christian believer to a holder of rationalistic religious view,a believer of humanistic religious view,and a creator of historical materialism on religious view.It is inspired by the various religious views of different philosophers,such as Hegel and young Hegelians,it also originated from Marx’s unremitting exploration and pursuit of human liberation.At different stages of ideological evolution,Marx’s understanding and opinions on religion are different By analyzing these religious discourses in different periods,we can find that Marx’s view of religion has a process of continuous change.The change of his view of religion is basically synchronized with the evolution of his theory of human liberation.In middle school,Marx was a Christian believer.With the help of Christian theology,Marx built a loving moral world that was divorced from reality,which can be regarded as his first attempt to conceive the path of human liberation.After entering the university,Marx began to re-examine religion and the real world from the perspective of rationalist philosophy.He gradually abandoned his Christian faith and criticized religion,becoming a holder of rationalistic religious view.In his conceived rational country,all people obey the social contract,not the order of God,and man is liberated from the absolute rule of religious deities.After suffering setbacks in practice,Marx realized the inherent contradiction of rationalist philosophy,discovered that there should be an opposition to the proper state and the existing,the rational principles and the actual social order,and fell into the embrace of Feuerbach’s humanistic philosophy.His religious view has also changed from the rationalistic religious view to the humanistic religious view.Marx began to take the realistic people as the starting thinking point for the human liberation.He no longer stayed in the simple criticism of religious theology,and focused on the criticism of the secular foundations behind the religion.Feuerbach understands sensibility only as perceptual intuition,which makes his humanistic philosophy aphasia in the field of social history.After realizing that practice is the basis of understanding,Marx used the changing history or related ethnography as the understanding background,and understood the sensibility as social practice.He rethought the issue of religion liberation and human liberation in specific society and history,and realized the evolution from the humanistic religious view to the historical materialism on religious view.Reviewing the evolution of Marx’s religious view,we can find that in that era,only Marx was relentlessly pursuing the liberation of realistic people.This is the root of his ability to constantly break through the old religious view and create the historical materialism on religious view.