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  2. Marxism and religion - Wikipedia

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    God-Building was an idea proposed by some prominent early Marxists of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Inspired by Ludwig Feuerbach 's "religion of humanity", it had some precedent in the French Revolution with the " cult of reason ".

  3. Bourgeoisie - Wikipedia

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    Beyond the intellectual realms of political economy, history, and political science that discuss, describe, and analyze the bourgeoisie as a social class, the colloquial usage of the sociological terms bourgeois and bourgeoise describe the social stereotypes of the old money and of the nouveau riche, who is a politically timid conformist ...

  4. Great chain of being - Wikipedia

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    The chain of being hierarchy has God at the top, [7] above angels, which like him are entirely spirit, without material bodies, and hence unchangeable. [8] Beneath them are humans, consisting both of spirit and matter; they change and die, and are thus essentially impermanent. [9]

  5. Ruling class - Wikipedia

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    In sociology, the ruling class of a society is the social class who set and decide the political and economic agenda of society.. In Marxist philosophy, the ruling class are the class who own the means of production in a given society and apply their cultural hegemony to determine and establish the dominant ideology (ideas, culture, mores, norms, traditions) of the society.

  6. Cult of the Supreme Being - Wikipedia

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    The primary principles of the Cult of the Supreme Being were a belief in the existence of a god and the immortality of the human soul. [9] These beliefs were put to the service of Robespierre's fuller meaning, which was of a type of civic-minded, public virtue he attributed to the Greeks and Romans. [ 10 ]

  7. Monad (Gnosticism) - Wikipedia

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    The Monad is a monarchy with nothing above it. It is he who exists as God and Father of everything, the invisible One who is above everything, who exists as incorruption, which is in the pure light into which no eye can look. "He is the invisible Spirit, of whom it is not right to think of him as a god, or something similar.

  8. Nobility - Wikipedia

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    In countries where the nobility was the dominant class, the bourgeoisie gradually grew in power; a rich city merchant came to be more influential than a nobleman, and the latter sometimes sought inter-marriage with families of the former to maintain their noble lifestyles. [45]

  9. God-Building - Wikipedia

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    God-Building is an idea proposed by some prominent early Marxists in the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Inspired by Auguste Comte 's Religion of Humanity , the concept had some precedent in the French Revolution with the Cult of Reason .