He was baptized in the Lutheran church as a boy of six or so, at his parents behest.
He was not a practicing Lutheran as an adult according to anything I have ever read, and was not a devout Christian according to anything he wrote or did.
I tend to look at what a culture produces. An examination of my own religious/social culture quite a few years ago found it to be in decline. Some of us realize what’s going on around us and look for a more original philosophy for ourselves and our people.
For example, where were my main ancestors about 3,000 years ago. “Anatolia,” perhaps? And where before that? And what did they really believe in? Did we perhaps assume a foreign culture sometime in the interim?
And what should we do? Are we really monotheistic, or do vestiges of polytheism (idolatry) remain?
Are we really Romans or Greeks? And their writings a little before and after the year, 1. Was the information disseminated by them true? And what about the councils that decided the fabrication of a religion?
Those are the questions that I sought to find answers for, even if the truth were to turn out to be scary.
Why? Because our culture is in decline, and it’s not really ours.
For example, the piece on Marx mentions Helen of Troy, “fate,” etc. And look at the meanings behind the names for the days of the week. Idolatry is all around us. Our culture is saturated with it.