Dissecting Karl Max and Friedrich Nietzche's Fictional Religion Philosophical

It departs from the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche who harshly criticized Lutheran Christianity which he considered irrational in the course of his life. So did Lenin who saw the orthodox ambivalence of constantly defending the Tsar's interests in god's name and turning a blind eye to the suffering of the Russian people. Fighting the Tsar means against the church, against the church means against God.

Unfortunately, neither Nietzsche, Max nor Lenin came into contact with the maniacal views of modern humans related to religion in a group context in defense of their respective truths.

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In his book, Nietszche always metaphorically expresses his philosophy regarding God's existence in human life history. As in one of his books, Nietszche told me that one morning, a madman ran around the market shouting "I'm looking for God! I'm looking for God!".

The people who saw the madman then gathered to witness the action of the madman. Then there was one of the people who smirked by saying "Where did God go? did he run away or move house?" The madman then responds by staring intently at the person who asked, then saying "Guess where God is going?" then all the silence.

Soon, the madman answered his own question by saying "I want to talk to all of you, that we have killed him, Yes, we have all killed God!"

It was a story written by Nietszche who was the philosopher proclamator of God's death from Europe. Of course this metaphor formed by Nietszhce elicits a variety of responses, such as being annoying for believing that God exists and cannot be killed. But for Nietszche himself, God exists only in the realm of mind, because God is not "tangible" out there.

"Never bury your head in heavenly sand, but bring it freely, a grounded head that creates meaning," is roughly what Zarathustra, an imaginary character of Nietszche's mind, says.

Of course, when it viewed in a limited human mind, what Nietszche says is true. Because when human expects God's presence by asking for real evidence of his existence by giving a sign at that moment, then the tendency of our thoughts towards God will be polarized as to how Nietszche thinks.

God will die if human with all his limitations considers that God must make him a good and righteous person at all times, all the time. In my opinion, to make God "dying' is very easy, only by assessing the gifts and gifts given to nature, life, and various other sources, God is "dead" in each human being.

Again, Nietzsche argues that the God that human imagines is the result of the work of human madness itself. God is also human, God's shadow comes from the unfortunate flakes and egos of human. According to him, the shadow becomes a life for human, so that human is able to overcome whatever it is without shadow (God).

Strictly speaking, God is a manifestation of madness and short creation that is only experienced by the person who suffers the most. In short, according to Nietszche, God is merely wishful thinking formed from a weak, helpless human being.

In my opinion, the conception of the godly mind conveyed by Nietszche is coherent or linear with the modern human condition as it is today. Return to nietszche's saying, that "God is only the wishful thinking of a weak human". There is no denying that, human in his deepest soul, tends to remember God whenever there is endless calamity or difficulty.

The concept of thinking that marginalizes God's substance in every activity, as if making God only obliged to give pleasure only, so that at the most difficult point, modern human tends not to enjoy the process that God is given, so again, God has "died" twice in human himself.

According to me, the point of life is about suffering, about pain including difficulty or hardship. People who say they are not afflicted by trouble are the ones who are in luck. Because for me, the fact is we only die once, and live with enough time. For me too, if we want to feel alive, then we have to feel pain. The small assumption is that when we fall or are hit with a heavy and large object, we will feel pain, and from that pain, we still know that we are still alive. So is the conception of God within us.

Similar to Nietszche, Karl Max also argued that the moral teachings that have been in force and taught humility, surrender, good deeds, etc. associated with religious teachings serve to silence critical attitudes that are then used to control social change towards justice.

Karl Max also argues that religion with the content of moral teachings is considered to have been an opiate that makes people drunk under the illusion of the afterlife and forget to deal with bad and unfair social reality. Marx's criticism of religious authority stems from his predecessor's philosophers who had similar views. The philosopher was Ludwig Feurbach who wrote a work entitled "Das Wasen Chistentums" (The Nature of Christianity) that impressed Karl Marx at the time.

For Karl Max, Ludwig Feurbach became a role model for him who burned and raised his mind so that it was open and then the ideology of Marxism was born.

Feurbach's key phrase boils down to criticism of the core idea of one of his teachers, Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel's core idea is, "In human consciousness, God reveals himself. We feel like we are thinking and acting according to our will or taste, but behind it, it is the 'spirit of the universe' that achieves its purpose.

In my opinion, if simplified, then Hegel's intention means that human as a puppet with his own consciousness, understanding and will, but actually remains in the hands of the mastermind. That is called the spirit of the universe or God, not human.

Then Ludwig Feurbach denied that. According to him, what was conveyed by Hegel was wrong and distorted the facts by forming as if the real God is pseudo or invisible, while the real human being is just a puppet.

So according to him, it is not human who becomes the object of God's mind, but God is the the human mind, according to him, human existence as a material that can be felt can not be denied, while God is only on the object of the human mind.

The criticism continued with Feurbach believing that the indisputable reality is what humans can feel, not speculative thoughts. According to him, human must depart from the only indisputable reality, which is the certainty that can be felt, or derived and based on the five senses.

Karl Max then criticized Feurbach's idea by saying "why do human run to God? whereas God is only in the human mind, not the reality of the five senses of human. From his own statement, then Karl Marx concluded that human's flight to God was a form of social alienation. Social alienation in the form of injustice, un welfare, and social inequality.

In short, Karl Marx considered that God and religion were secondary. Both are the implications of primary causes, namely human inability to deal with broken social realities. That is why, Karl Marx states that religion is the opiate of society, which has kept society away from the struggle against rampant injustice and tyranny.

Karl Marx's understanding and ideas were later entha exposed to marxism and could then be easily accepted by his followers. Followers or adherents of Marxism ideology become very violent when facing religious issues, symbols mapun adherents of religion

This includes the case with Vladimir Lenin. Through his struggle with the Bolsheviks who later gave birth to the Soviet Union, as the first socialist state in the world born from the October Revolution of 1917. In his little-known act, that Vladimir lenin oppressed the Orthodox Church and broke the influence of Islam and Buddhism at the time.

The singular ideology formed by Vladimir Lenin was Marxism-Leninism into his iron fist and sledgehammer. This is what is then attached to the history of the Indonesian nation, the journey of the PKI became an indisputable fact that they felt disgust and hatred towards religion, scholars and followers, other religious leaders, and other religious symbols.

Their hatred of religion and God has clearly spawned a mess. They number human beings as sensory realities and deify God who they don't think exists.

But one thing is certain, how this Marxism-Leninism ideology works, has been shown to unite the empathy of its people, thus making their society loyal to them. Even the Soviet-owned Red Army troops contained soldiers of various religions, but were able to be loyal under the leadership of the Soviet banner.

There is a historical fact that some may not have known, that one of the soldiers who waved the Soviet flag over the Reichstag after it was conquered was a Muslim soldier, named Abdulhakim Ismailov.