Milton J. Yinger
Notes
Notes no strict boundary between Marxism and Catholicism/religion.
"It is a matter of frequent observation that they [Marxists] have not only borrowed many of their central doctrines from Christianity and Judaism, but also share many aspects of the general religious point of view. Von Hugel was perhaps the first to note the great similarity between the apocalyptic and the Marxist interpretation of the movement of history....This is not a chance relationship, for there is a direct historical connection between the Marxist pattern of thought and Christianity." [1]
Notes no strict boundary between religion and science. "Much of the controversy regarding the significance of religion is concerned with its relation to science. That Christianity becoming more and more acclimated to a world of science is evidence of its flexibility. Whether one thinks that in making this adjustment Christianity is forced to surrender its essential quality depends again on his conception of the essence of religion. If the essence is held to be a particular body of belief and dogma, then Christianity and science are often in direct contraction....If, on the other hand, the essence of religion is held to be the contribution which it attempts to make to man's adjustment to life (particularly to the frustrating experiences, to the pessimism...that arises from the failure to control most of the "imperialistic" impulses), then there need be no conflict between science and religion. [2]
