Further, there is more to this name than superficial chronological significance. The concept of a redeemer, a liberator, or a deliverer is much closer to the state of mind that is prevalent today than is the innocuous and ambiguous term information . Whether or not one accepts Jesus as our savior, the idea that we need to, and will, be saved has been the fundamental idea of Western society since long before Christ. In fact, the idea began with Zoroaster and was refined by the Jews but only came to global dominance with the conquest of most of the world by Christian countries. This idea of redemption contains within it many assumptions that most of us make without question.
Redemption means there is a future.
It means there is change. It means that awaiting us there is a better world in which the suffering of the present is eliminated. In Enlightenment thought, the People would deliver themselves from the inequities and iniquities of monarchy, autocracy and religious dogma. Subsequently, Marxism took this humanism to its logical conclusion and specifically identified the redemptive future as a classless, stateless society in which all humanity shared the wealth it produced in common. This vision is not unlike the vision Christ is purported to have preached.