Departing from the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche who strongly criticized Lutheran Christianity which he considered irrational in the course of his life. Likewise, Lenin saw the ambivalent orthodox who continued to defend the Tsar's interests in the name of God and turned a blind eye to the suffering of the Russian people. To go against the Tsar is to go against the church, to fight the church is to go against God. Unfortunately, Nietzsche, Marx, and Lenin do not intersect with the maniacal views of modern humans regarding religion in the context of groups in defending their respective truths.
In his book, Nietzsche always uses metaphors in expressing his philosophy related to the existence of God in the history of human life. As in one of his books, Nietzsche tells that one morning, a madman was running around the market shouting "I am looking for God! I am looking for God!". People who saw the madman then gathered around to witness the action of the madman. Then there was one community member who said, "Where did God go? Did he run away or move house?" The lunatic then responded by glaring at the person who asked the question, then said "Guess where did God go?" then all silence. Not long after, the madman answered his question by saying "I want to tell you, that we killed him, Yes, we all killed God!"
That is a story written by Nietzsche who is a philosopher who proclaims God's death from Europe. Of course, this metaphor created by Nietzsche elicits various responses, such as being annoying because he believes that God exists and cannot be killed. But for Nietzsche himself, God exists only in the realm of thought, because God does not "manifest" out there. "Never bury your head in heavenly sand, but carry it freely, an earthly head that creates meaning", as Zarathustra said, an imaginary character created by Nietzsche mind.
Yes, if viewed from a limited human mind, what Nietzsche said is true. Because when humans expect God's presence by asking for tangible evidence of his existence by giving a sign at that very moment, then the tendency of our thoughts towards God will be polarized as Nietzsche thinks. God will die if a man with all the limitations of his mind thinks that God must make him a good and righteous person at all times, all the time. In my opinion, killing God is very easy, just by judging the gifts and gifts given to nature, life, and various other sources, God is "dead" in each human being.
Once again, Nietzsche argues, that the God imagined by man is the result of the work of man's madness. God is also human, the image of God comes from the unfortunate fragments and human ego. According to him, the shadow is a life of its own for humans, so that humans can overcome whatever it is without a shadow (God). Strictly speaking, God is a manifestation of madness and short creation that is only experienced by those who suffer the most. In short, according to Nietzsche, God is just wishful thinking formed from helpless weak humans,
In my opinion, Nietzsche conception of a divine mind is coherent or linear with the modern human condition as it is today. Back to Nietzsche words, that "God is only a weak human imagination". It is undeniable that humans, in their deepest souls, tend to remember God when there is an endless calamity or difficulty. the concept of thinking that ignores God's substance in every activity, as if it makes God only obliged to give pleasure so that at the most difficult point, modern humans tend not to enjoy the process that is being given by God, so once again, God has "died" twice in man himself. In my opinion, the point of life is about suffering, about pain including hardship or distress. Some people say they are not being afflicted by trouble, some people are lucky. Because to me, the bottom line is that we only die once, and live with enough time. For me too, if we want to feel alive, then we must feel pain. The small assumption is, our reflex when we fall or get hit by a fairly heavy and large object, we will feel pain, and from that pain, we still know that we are still alive. Likewise with the conception of God within us.
Similar to Nietzsche, Karl Marx also argues that the moral teachings that have been applied so far and teach humility, resignation, do good, and others that are associated with religious teachings function to silence critical attitudes which are then used to control social change towards justice. Karl Marx also argues that religion with moral teachings is considered to have become an addiction that makes people drunk in illusions about the afterlife and forgets to deal with bad and unfair social realities. Marx's critique of religious authority is rooted in his predecessor philosophers who held the same view. The philosopher was Ludwig Feuerbach who wrote a work entitled "Das Wasen Chistentms" (The essence of Christianity) which impressed Karl Marx at that time. For Karl Marx, the figure of Ludwig Feuerbach became a role model for him who burned and awakened his mind so that it was open and then the ideology of Marxism was born.
Feuerbach's keywords lead to a critique of the core idea of one of his teachers, namely Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel's core idea is, "In human consciousness, God reveals himself. We feel that we think and act according to our will or taste, but behind it, it is the 'universal spirit' that achieves its goals.
In my opinion, if simplified, Hegel's intention means that humans are puppets with their awareness, understanding, and will, but in fact, they are still in the hands of the mastermind. The mastermind is what is called the universal spirit or God, not man.
Then Ludwig Feuerbach denied it. According to him, what Hegel said was wrong and distorted the facts by forming as if the real is God who is pseudo or invisible, while humans who are real are only puppets.
So according to him, it is not humans who are the object of God's mind, but God is the fruit of the human mind, according to him, the existence of humans as material that can be felt cannot be denied, while God is only the object of human thought.
The criticism was continued by Feuerbach who posited that the undeniable reality is what can be felt by humans, not speculative thoughts. According to him, humans must start from the only undeniable reality, namely, the certainty that can be felt, or originates and is based on the five senses.
Karl Marx then criticized Feurbach's idea by saying "why do humans run to God? Even though God only exists in the realm of human thought, not the reality of the five human senses. From his explanation, then Karl Marx concluded that human flight to God is a form of social alienation. Social alienation in the form of injustice, inequality, and social inequality.
In short, Karl Marx considered God and religion to be secondary. Both are implications of primary causes, namely the inability of humans to deal with corrupted social realities. That is why, Karl Marx stated that religion is the opium of society, which has distanced society from the struggle against rampant injustice and tyranny.
It was this understanding and idea of Karl Marx which was later embodied in the ideology of Marxism and was then easily accepted by his followers. The followers or adherents of the ideologues of Marxism become very vicious when faced with issues of religion, symbols, or religious adherents.
This includes what happened to Vladimir Lenin. Through his struggle with the Bolsheviks which later gave birth to the Soviet Union, as the first socialist country in the world that was born from the October Revolution of 1917. In his actions little known to the public, that Vladimir Lenin suppressed the Orthodox Church and broke the influence of Islam and Buddhism at that time. The single ideology formed by Vladimir Lenin, namely, Marxism-Leninism became his iron fist and sledgehammer. This is what then when linked with the history of the Indonesian, the Communist Party journey becomes an undeniable fact that they feel disgusted and hate towards religion, the religion leader and their followers, and other religious symbols.
Their hatred of religion and God has created chaos. They put human beings first as a sensory reality and put God as secondary, which they think does not exist.
But one thing is certain, how this Marxism-Leninism ideology works, has proven to be successful in uniting the empathy of its people, thus making their people loyal to them. Even the Red Army troops owned by the Soviets contained soldiers from various religions but were able to be loyal under the leadership of the Soviet banner. There is a historical fact that some people may not know, that one of the soldiers who raised the Soviet Union flag over the Reichstag after being conquered was a Muslim soldier, named Abdulhakim Ismailov.
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