From Darren's post:

Karl Marx was born in 1818 in Trier Prussia, which is now part of Germany. Karl was born in an upper middle class Jewish home. His father Hershel was a lawyer and came from a long line of rabbi’s. Karl’s uncle Samuel was the Chief Rabbi of Trier. Karl’s family converted to the state church, which was Lutheran in order to help his career as a lawyer.

Now ... I'd read that as the idiot child saying that the family converted in order to help KARL's career as a lawyer. That's about all it could have meant; the only other male person in any proximity to that "his career" was uncle Samuel.

But no. (I use this source because it's probably correct on these facts, whatever else it is, and because of the strange similarity to the idiot child's own screed.)

http://www.adherents.com/people/pm/Karl_Marx.html

Karl Marx was born in Trier, an ancient German city in the Rhineland... His ancestors, Jewish on both his mother's and father's sides, were rabbis. His father, Heinrich, had converted to Protestantism in 1816 or 1817 in order to continue practicing law after the Prussian edict denying Jews to the bar.

Here's the original source of that passage:
http://www.greatcom.org/resources/handbook_of_todays_religions/04chap02/default.htm

It strikes me that the idiot child has attempted a synthesis of what he had read, and blown the job. Just doesn't have a clue, does he?

http://www.greatcom.org

calls Marxism a "secular religion".

http://www.greatcom.org/resources/secular_religions/

Understanding Secular Religions

In this volume of our series, we present brief discussions of some of the most dynamic secular alternatives to Christianity which are available today. These alternatives are not strictly religious since they have no belief in God or the supernatural, and involve no form of worship or liturgy. That is why we have labeled them secu1ar.

However, they are religious in the sense that they are more or less unified comprehensive world views which seek to explain the "why' of existence. Because they have their own creeds, their own "scriptures," their own "clergy," and their own closely knit groups, we have labeled them religions.

.. Two of our topics are loosely organized and consist primarily of ideas rather than existing as full-blown belief systems. These two, existentialism and atheism (which includes agnosticism and skepticism), are more properly types of philosophical thought rather than comprehensive movements. However, they still challenge the Christian world view and demand an almost religious commitment. Our other two topics, Marxism and Secular Humanism, appear to be complete world views and belief systems. They are the secular substitutes for Christianity and more nearly fit the traditional definition of religion.

Bullshit on parade.

Perhaps the old meth user had a hand in it ...

It all puts me in mind of an internet poster I encountered a few years ago, who had directed her audience to a tract apparently by a nun apparently named Elasah Drogin. Ah yes, she seems to have been real: the book's for sale by a vendor of "good Roman Catholic books" --
http://www.catholicauthors.org/cgi-bin/rpb455/4406.html

This is one of the various reprints of it, or bits of it, or whatever on line; you'll recognize the tired lies:
http://dianedew.com/sanger.htm

First, I've just never been able to get over the title: "Margaret Sanger, Father of Modern Society". Eh??

Ahhhh ... mystery finally solved. The original title was Gründerin der modernen Gesellschaft -- *founder* of modern society. I hope the translator was intentionally making the author look like a moron.

Anyhow, Drogan's tract opens with some facts, like the fact that Sanger was

Founder of Planned Parenthood,
the largest abortion provider in the world.

And so "Peppy", the internet poster in question, informed us all that Margaret Sanger was the largest abortion provider in the world.

Until I'd realized what her source was, I was dumbfounded. (Abortion was illegal throughout almost all of Sanger's lifetime, and there is not a stitch of evidence that she ever performed a single abortion.) When I realized what her source was ... I was still dumbfounded.

Sometimes stupidity really is just unfathomable.

(edited to remove a misplaced url)