“But since you asked about God, about becoming a Marxist, I believe that He is the force behind social change and revolution. In other words, the force of love. And that is the Biblical concept of God. In the Bible you have the promised land, where there will be no social injustice, where there will be no poverty, where the earth will be divided equally among all the tribes. And since that didn’t happen, because there began to be repression and exploitation, kings and lords, rich people and therefore also dispossessed and poor people, then the prophets appeared to denounce all that, and announce a kingdom of justice, a perfect kingdom, in which there would no longer be any exploiters on earth. Christ came to tell us that that kingdom begins with him, and that is what Marx called perfect communism.”

—Ernesto Cardenal

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