Marx’s Critical Thought Of Religion And Its Contemporary Value

Religion,as a part of the superstructure and a special social ideology,is interwoven with various problems in the society,and has played an important role in the development and progress of social history.It is one of the important issues that cannot be ignored in every stage of social development.At present,as socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era,many new features and manifestations of religious phenomena have emerged in society,posing new challenges to the handling of religious affairs.Therefore,based on China’s reality,it is particularly important to strengthen the study of Marx’s religious criticism.Marx’s religious criticism thought as an important part of Marx’s theoretical system,carries on the system analysis and research is not only beneficial to understand and grasp the theoretical connotation of Marx’s religious criticism thought,can also to know and grasp the essence of the new era of Chinese religious phenomena provide scientific methodology,to build the new era of Chinese characteristic socialism religion theory guide,Lay a theoretical foundation for handling religious affairs well.At first,from a macroscopic point of view,on the basis of systematically sorting out the generation and development of Marx’s religious criticism,this study studies and explores the background and ideological origin of Marx’s religious criticism.Although Marx’s criticism of religion is not the core content of Marxist theoretical system,it is his thorough criticism of religion that provides the premise for his thorough criticism of politics,society and law.Martin Luther’s religious reform completely ended the theocratic rule of Roman Catholicism in Western Europe,made people get the initiative in the relationship with religion,and laid the social and cultural foundation for Europe to deal with religious issues.From the 17 th century to the early 19 th century,with the development of natural science,people’s cognition of the world was further deepened,especially under the impetus of bourgeois revolution and industrial revolution,the authority of religious doctrine was completely overturned,which laid a realistic foundation for the emergence of Marx’s religious criticism.The European Renaissance and Enlightenment made the rise of The European religious criticism thought,which provided a rich ideological origin for the generation and formation of Marx’s religious criticism thought.The religious views of Hegel,the Young Hegelians and Feuerbach became the direct theoretical source of Marx’s religious criticism;Secondly,by systematically sorting out and analyzing the historical process of the formation and evolution of Marx’s criticism of religion,it is not difficult to find that Marx’s criticism of religion has undergone three ideological changes: From secondary school theism thought to atheism thoughts of the university period,from thoughts to the religious criticism of the social and political criticism,as well as German and French yearbook period to materialism and change to the root of the proletarian political stance,religious criticism thought of Marx’s historical materialism,eventually formed laid a solid foundation;Thirdly,Marx’s criticism of religion is based on three changes and finally completes the construction of historical materialism’s religious criticism.In this process,Marx profoundly revealed the origin,essence,social function and development prospect of religion.Marx believed that religion is an inverted world outlook,the alienation of human nature,and a special social ideology.He believed that the emergence of religion is determined by specific social and historical conditions,social productivity level and human cognition level.However,religion is formed and developed under certain social and historical conditions.Therefore,when its living conditions disappear completely,that is,when the unreasonable social system such as private ownership disappears completely,that is,when the communist society is realized,religion will die out;Finally,throughout the development process of Marx’s religious criticism thought and Marx to reveal the nature of religion,Marx’s religious criticism thought not only for us to recognize and deal with religious issues provides a scientific methodology,at the same time,also helps us understand deeply and master the new era of the new feature of religion in Chinese society and the new situation,to guide the construction of a new era of Chinese characteristic socialism religion theory,It will provide an action guide for China’s religious work in the new era,and actively guide religion to serve Chinese society.