Karl Marx's Argument For God Is Dead

I am a theist and I believe god does exist which many philosophers like Alfred Russel Wallace, Archbishop Selby, and Sayyid Qutb etc. They try to prove that god is not dead. But I think that the argument for God is dead because there reasons are better even though I think God is not dead. Karl Marx believed that God and religion were running society and was corrupting people. Marx’s opinion was that religion is an illusion that provides reasons and excuses to keep society functioning. Karl Marx knew god should be dead as people were becoming very corrupt and hiding the truth in the name of god. This was when Karl Marx realised that religion was hypocritical, although religion might have had valuable principles; people always used it for power …show more content…
One of the strengths in his argument is that he had the awareness the note that capitalist and societies can very easily become divided. He also realized the class struggles between the rich and poor. Richard Dawkins has a very strong belief and argument that suggests God does not metaphysically exist and that god is dead, his argument similar to epicure’s metaphysical argument. Richard Dawkins’s main argument for why god is dead is that: Life is formed from simple, single celled organisms to complex beings. Intelligent beings have to come at the end of the chain. God is believed to be a ‘supernatural intelligence’; he is also believed to have designed and created the universe. Epicurus had good theories about universe theory, that there is infinite and eternal, annihilation (nihilism), at death; no soul. These ones are good but the better one is the problem of evil suggest too much evil suggests the amount God care for you. This is because there is bad evil such as: murder, adultery, robbing, drugs etc. These theories are good because they can’t be proven wrong with evidence so it means that it can’t be proven