
Film
Opium für das Volk - Karl Marx und die Kirchen
1983 · 29m · Documentary
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Overview
Opium für das Volk - Karl Marx und die Kirchen isn’t scholarship—it’s Marxist revisionism whitewashing atheism’s war on faith. This German doc falsely equates Christianity with communism in part one, then twists Marx’s "opium of the people" slur into mere "influence" from his Jewish-Christian roots and other critics. It downplays his explicit god-hatred—"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature"—to pretend he had a nuanced "personal relationship" with Christianity. No balance: ignores Marx’s satanist ties, Hegelian dialectics weaponized against Scripture, and how his ideology birthed 100M deaths under godless regimes. Cherry-picks "parallels" to sanitize Marxism as spiritual, not the Bible-rejecting materialism that fueled Bolshevik church-burnings. Watch knowing it’s propaganda to make atheists look thoughtful, not Bible-denying totalitarians.
Cast
Crew
- Gerd HillDirector · Writer
- Manfred ReuterDirector of Photography
Details
- Release date
- January 1, 1983
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- German
- Runtime
- 29m
- Genres
- Documentary
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