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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, April 1, 1968
Marxism; religion discussed at forum
"Communism and Christianity can peacefully coexist in the world," Richard DeGeorge, chairman of the philosophy department, said Sunday at the third meeting of the Newman Forum Lecture Series in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
In his speech, "Marxism and Christianity: The Contemporary Dialogue," the latter part referring to the recent dialogues among theologians, philosophers and Marxists, he discussed the Marxist view of religion.
Because Karl Marx believed that Christianity was dead and nothing to worry about, there was no need to bother with it and certainly no need to dignify it with dialogues, DeGeorge said.
Nikolai Lenin said religion was standing in the way of the Communist revolution; he abolished it after the 1917 revolution. Josef Stalin, however, reestablished some of the churches after the German invasion of Russia during World War II, because he knew religion would be a unifying force.
Although there are still some churches in Russia, the formal practice of religion is against the law in the Russian constitution, DeGeorge said.
In Eastern Europe religion is something not to be dealt with but to be tolerated.
"New Marxists," DeGeorge said, "are beginning to look at Communism and religion in a
Piekalkiewicz to talk on E. Europe politics
The Student Union Activities Current Events Forum will sponsor a lecture about Poland and Czechoslovakia at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas Union Pine Room.
different light." They are saying the religion Marx attacked was not the religion of the true believer, and if religion does not support the status quo and there are certain similarities between Marxist and Christian thought, there is no reason why communism and Christianity cannot coexist.
However, DeGeorge said, these Marxists are not the Marxists in power, they are not held in much respect by the orthodox Marxists.
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Auditions for Project Concern Variety Show begin
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