What was Marx's "wrong reason"? I had the impression his point was that religion distracts people from improving this world, not that he had a substitute. > w

What was Marx's "wrong reason"? I had the impression his point was that religion distracts people from improving this world, not that he had a substitute. > we live in a time, perhaps unprecedented in history, when the world is generally rotten It has been argued - I forget by who - that this was the normal view of history across cultures for thousands of years, that there was a golden age before writing now fallen into decay, until Western progressivism became a prominent ideology. It seems to me there is a lot of religious scripture in support of the idea that history is a cycle of decline, corruption, false prophets, and indiscriminate punishment from God.