Christ Over Russia
by Steve Farrell
Proving that not all news out of Russia persuades one that communism is on the rise again, Pravda reported on December 30th:
“The administration of Russia’s Penza region approved a regional flag with the image of Jesus Christ on it as the state symbol of the region. …
“As the Inopressa.ru website informs, the very fact that this flag appeared demonstrates that Russia continues the of its Orthodox roots, and talks about Jesus Christ are no longer considered as politically incorrect. Originally, the Penza regional authorities planned to depict President Vladimir Putin on the flag, but later it was decided to depict Jesus Christ on the state symbol of the region.” (1)
In a similar development, religious instruction was recently approved for inclusion in Russia’s public schools. Various faiths may offer before and after-school instruction, upon approval.
Too bad the American ACLU and all their liberal comrades weren’t there to set these formerly tyrannized peoples straight, to inform them that religious symbols and religious instruction in public life are unacceptable, that it is only in a secular/atheistic state where liberty, fraternity, prosperity are possible – that really the only image that ought to be permissible on the flags which fly over “Paradise” are those of Vladimir Lenin, or Joseph Stalin, or Karl Marx!
Think about it.
It was Karl Marx who in his doctoral dissertation stated, “I hate all the gods!”, and this too, “[we ought] to recognize as the highest divinity, the human self-consciousness itself!” (2) That is, man is God, or as he later revised it, only a few men are Gods (namely communists, particularly, the communist, Karl Marx), and all the rest, more like dumb sheep in need of the godly sheepherders of the state (and only the state) to point them this way and that.
To insure the people would really be that dumb and that blind, he had a plan. It went like this: use the state to step by step abolish “eternal truth … all religion, and all morality.” (3)
That does help. And to what ultimate, holy end?
It wasn’t to bring about Utopia! The truth came out in a wedding proposal letter to his sweetheart, Jenny von Westphalen, wherein Marx wrote, “Jenny! If we can but weld our souls together, then with contempt shall I fling my glove in the world’s face, then shall I stride through the wreckage a creator!” (4)
Such a proposal! Their mission, to destroy, no, liquidate all religion and all believers. Their reward. He, Marx, becomes the new creator of Heaven and Earth (what would be left of it!), she, Westphalen, would be permitted to stand by his side, or more appropriately, at his feet, so that she, with all the rest of the world, might worship him!
But don’t be surprised; Communism’s goal has ever been to make war on religion and come off conqueror, and ascend the throne as God.
Lenin wrote, “We must combat religion – this is the ABC of all materialism, and consequently Marxism.” (5)
And Stalin noted as to state progress in fulfilling Lenin’s dream: “Have we suppressed the reactionary clergy? Yes, we have. The unfortunate thing is is that is has not been completely liquidated. Anti-religious propaganda is a means by which the complete liquidation of the reactionary clergy must be brought about.” (6)
Stalin’s holy quest literally liquidated millions, sometimes entire cities were leveled to help send home the message of this new gospel. But to finish the job, he did a few other things – like turning churches and cathedrals into secular buildings, prohibiting the Christmas festival, criminalizing the buying and selling of Christmas trees, eliminating Sunday as a day of worship, and requiring that workers rotate their days off so that industry would continue day and night, seven days a week. (7)
And one thing more, the state must use the school system to promote hatred for Christianity.
Comrade Lunarcharsky, the former Russian Commissioner of Education, wrote: “We hate Christians and Christianity. Even the best of them must be considered our worst enemies. Christian love is an obstacle to the development of the revolution. Down with love of one’s neighbor! What we want is hate … Only then can we conquer the universe.” (8)
Yes, in fulfillment, it seems, of Biblical prophecy, Marx and his communist successors, with power-seeking and hatred for God and his children as their chief motivators, “opposeth and exalteth [themselves] above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that [they] as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing [themselves] that [they are] God” – making Communism, and its chief tool – state hostility toward religion – not about liberty, but about tyranny, not about the greater good, but about raw power. (9)
And so now the tables are turning. Out of the dimness, and dungeons, and death of communism, the Russian people crave a return to the Christianity they were so long deprived of, and their state is slowly waking up to the value of faith in private as well as in public life. While, strangely, in America, the home of religious liberty, Liberalism and the ACLU, embrace the old communist line and strategy, wherein daily, in the name of freedom, they labor in every state, every county, every city, every village, and soon in every home, to crush the religious liberty our forefathers bequeathed to us. Which turning of the tables ought to give us pause.
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Footnotes
2. Skousen, Cleon. “The Naked Communist,” Ensign Publishing Company, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1958, p. 12-13
3. Marx, Karl. “The Communist Manifesto”
4. Wilson, Edmund. “To the Finland Station,” p. 115. As quoted in “The Naked Communist.”
5. V.I. Lenin, “Religion,” p. 14.
6. Joseph Stalin, “Leninism,” Vol. 1, p. 387
7. “The Naked Communist,” p. 122-123
8. “US Congressional Record, Vol. 77,” pp. 1539-1540
9. Holy Bible, 2 Thessalonians 2:4
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