The funny part being that they write it as if the ideas are preposterous. Putting religion at the very basis of the operation of the universe is one hell of a drug.
EDIT: Already made it a comment, but I feel it's important before people get that idea that these people are necessarily our enemies.
People write/read takes like this and come to radically different conclusions due to their different base axioms of human experience. For the target readership of catholicculture.org, they are ones that are trying to understand the universe, with the base assumption being the existence of a Christian god. Many an apologetic has attempted to synthesize the real observable world with a just, righteous god. Regardless of their flawed logics, they are at least interested in taking a holistic approach to the human experience rather than an individual, capitalist, exploitative experience. As someone who as a child dove into the catholic theological worldview, desperate for meaning in this clearly meaning deprived society, these people can be radicalized, and are capable of changing their basis of thought. It takes real effort and patience, but they are much more likely to be a devoted comrade to the human liberatory unification experience than a bourgeois hedonistic individualist, who only cares for themselves and the people closest to them, who would rather not ponder their experience let alone the collective human experience, but rather live their own lives in pursuit of illusory happiness in isolation.
The ideas are preposterous from a theist perspective, obviously.
Which to me is so interesting how varied a humans base laws of conscious operation/reasoning can be and how drastically different the truth of a phrase can be interpreted as a result. Having long ago been a reactionary theist with such radically different base axioms to live by, I wonder what I would have made of dialectical materialist at the time.
I can give an answer to this, as a Catholic leftist (but not a philosopher of any degree). I think dialectical materialism is an interesting and sometimes very productive lens to look at historical and present material conditions through, since obviously there are always ways to perceive reality as a struggle between thesis and antithesis, though it's not necessarily an accurate (in my opinion) representation of all of reality. There are probably a lot of different takes that theists could have on it, though, so mine is worth next to nothing anyway.
Hey, thanks for the reply, its not often I get to discuss this sort of thing with a leftist from the theological perspective.
If you want to learn a physics perspective on dialectics and the nature of the universe, this was a pretty interesting read that argues well for a dialectical reality Theoretical Physics and Dialectics of Nature
If you're up for talking about it, what do you find to be lacking in its mapping onto reality?