Religion, Power, Nature

The concept of Religion as Practical bears out that the fundamental Marxist criticism of it is, as Trotsky puts it, "power over nature".  In those terms, the advantage of Marxism over Religion, given the Technological boom of the Modern Era, is one of efficacy, rather than of truth.  On the other hand, Religion retains one asset for which Marxism has no rival--the possible existence of an omnipotent deity.  Even in the decline of Religion during the rise of Technology in recent centuries, the persistence of the former reflects the continued popularity of 'Pascal's Wager', i. e. of the willingness to believe in the existence of a power over nature that far exceeds any attributable to Technology.  Marxism can easily dispute the truth of that existence, but not of its possibility.