"The decisive element of Marx’s atheism is inseparable, in other words, from his rejection of the 'philosophy of comprehension.' And Marxist atheism surpasses all previous forms because it passes into irreligion, which defeats religion not by argument but simply by erasing God and the religious dimension from thought and life. This is the decisive reason that man after Marx is destined to become fully bourgeois—in Del Noce’s later formulation, 'a man whose life is completely determined by the category of usefulness, so that he desecrates everything he thinks about.' The defining mark of irreligion is 'sociologism,' which reduces all pretense of metaphysical truth to historical conditions and social or psychological functions within the immanent field of power relations that define modern politics, carrying a world of metaphysical assumptions in train. Sociologism makes anonymous atheists of us all, and one can measure the scope of its triumph within Christianity itself by the extent to which the social sciences have replaced metaphysics in the Church’s manner of thinking."
Michael Hanby, "Del Noce's moment," First things no. 327 (November 2022): 60 (59-63).
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