Robert Pacienzia correctly identifies socialism not just as a political ideology but as a false religion here.

“Every religion answers the same basic questions: What is wrong with the world? Who or what will save us? Where is history headed? Socialism, in its Marxist form especially, offers answers for all three.

Humanity’s deepest problem, according to Karl Marx, is material inequality. Not sin. Not a broken relationship with God. Inequality itself is the great evil, the root of every other evil, the one thing that must be abolished at any cost.

The solution—the promised salvation—comes by revolution. Class struggle is what moves history forward, Marx argued. And once the socialist revolution happens and produces a classless society, the deepest wounds of human existence are supposed to disappear with it. No church, no priesthood, no need for grace. Just political power, correctly applied.

The priesthood, in this system, is the party: the revolutionaries who understand the evil arc of capitalist history and are willing to bend it. And the promised end is a world finally free of hierarchy, private property, and want.

Boston College philosopher Peter Kreeft put it well: “Marx, like Moses, is the prophet who leads the new Chosen People, the proletariat, out of the slavery of capitalism into the Promised Land of communism.” Kreeft was not exaggerating for effect. He was describing the actual architecture of Marxist thought, borrowed wholesale from the biblical story it was built to replace.“

Pacienzia is absolutely correct that “Christians should be the last people fooled by this. We know why the world is broken, and it is not primarily an economic story.” However, such is unfortunately not the case as tragically an increasing number of Christians, having abandoned Biblical truth for their metaphysical foundation, fall prey to this delusion.