Does the Communist Dialectic Explain Conflict in the World?
If a person does not have religious experience or understanding, he thinks that humans were created to live in this state of conflict. Some scholars conclude that God cannot be perfect, that He created humankind to live this way and improve little by little every day. If God is good, how can He put up with so much evil and corruption in the world? No one can look at the wonder of this vast, infinite universe and not sense that there is some awesome power behind it. But at the same time, when a person looks at the corruption of human society, it is common that he will doubt the existence of God. The fact of conflict and struggle appears to be real, while the idea of an omnipotent, loving God appears to be an illusion. Karl Marx was confused about God in this way. He felt a contradiction within himself, between his childhood faith in God and the questions he had in his mind. His theory of dialectics, which is based upon the importance of conflict and struggle, arose from within his own m
