Hi, this is Hank Hanegraff, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Instrument

broadcast with another Hank Unplug Short.

I have on a previous Hank Unplug Short talked about Karl Marx. I've been memorizing Carl Marx.

Because Marx believed that religion was the sigh of the oppressed creature. I think we have to pay attention to that word oppressed because

for Marx, everything was a battle between the oppressed and the oppressor.

And for Marx, the oppressor is primarily religion.

And the evolution of civilization, religion must be destroyed.

Why? Because, as he said, the abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people

is the demand for their real happiness.

So religion has to be destroyed because it's an illusion.

What's the antidote to that?

The antidote to that is to demonstrate that religion is not an illusion, but it is faith grounded in a

refutable fact. I mean, we look at the heavens and we see God's eternal power and divine nature

clearly, clearly seen.

And therefore, as St. Paul puts it, we are without excuse.

The heavens declare the glory of God.

The skies proclaim the work of his hands.

So the Christian faith is not an illusion.

And we need to be able to communicate that because Carl Marx was a devotee of Darwin

and Darwin has won the day in our culture.

And the antidote again is for Christians to be able to communicate truth.

And then as I say in my book, Truth Matters, Life Matters More, demonstrate that there is

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