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Communism's DangerFaith in Man or Faith in God

Part II

Last month we discussed the allure ofman to Communism, the essence ofwhich is the total denial of the God ofhistory and the elevation of man to behis own god. This is the fundamentalreason the Communists have becomeinfamous for their inhuman behavioraround the world. They recognize no estrictive, higher power or value that controls man's behavior. By their denial ofGod - AUIEJSM - they have releasedthemselves to exercise the full spectrumof the depravity of man. The history ofthe past seventy years is the strongestevidence possible that man, when leftto his own devices and uncontrolled nature, too often perpetrates the most horrible and satanic acts of inhumanity andevil on his fellow man imaginable. Theestimated one hundred fifty million in-nocent people murdered by the Communists to advance their insane causesince the death of Karl Marx in 18831,of which some sixty-six. million2 alone

have been the Russian people themselves, provides unequivocal proof ofthis, it seems to me.

The activities of the Communists inthe hierarchy in the Kremlin over thepast seventy years very much remindme of the scriptural passage in John3:20:

or every one that doeth evil hateththe light neither cometh to the lightlest his deeds should be examined.

And the following passages are certainly appropriate:

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to that which is good (Romans 12:9).For my people have committed two

evils; they have forsaken me the foun-t in o f living waters and hewed themout cisterns broken cisterns that canhold no water (Jeremiah 2:13).

I cannot emphasize too strongly thatAmericans must always remember thatCommunists behave on the basis of amoral system that is totally foreign,and in many cases, absolutely oppositeto that of us Americans, especiallythose Americans who are Bible-believing Christians. There is absolutely

no common moral and ethical groundbetween Communism and the way oflife of the Western world that is basedon the Judeo-Christian ethic - NONE

As Whittaker Chambers in his book,WITNESS, says on page eight,

"I see in Communism the focus ofthe concentrated evil of our time."

Also appropriate here from WIT

NESS:"Man cannot organize the world forhimself without God; without God mancan only organize the world againstman. The gas ovens of Buchenwald andthe Communist execution c ~ l l r sexistfrrst within our minds." (p. 83)

"It is the first century since life began when a decisive part o the most ar-

ticulate section of mankind has notmerely ceased to believe in God, bhth s deliberately rejected God . And it isthe century in which ris religious rejection has taken a specifically politicalform, so that the characteristic experience of the mind in this age is a politi

cal experience .t

every point, religionand politics interlace, and must do somore acutely as the conflict between thetwo great camps of men - those whoreject and those who worship God -becomes irrepressible. Those camps are

not only outside, but also within na-tions." (p. 449) '

"The most conspicuously menacingform of that rejection is Communism. .. ." (p. 449) [See chart comparing theAmerican ethic and the Communistethic on the next page.] . , ,

In seventy years' of o ~ u n i s treignin Russia a valid charge has been increasingly made that there has beenlittle ofexceptional quality produced bthe Soviet people in the arts - that theoppressive character of Communismhas forced the Russian people into avast swamp of mediocrity. Likewise ithas become clear that Marxist economics produces absolutely n9thing butbasket cases around the world - it forcesthe Communist governments to constantly borrow capital, steal from theirsatellite countries, and import food.

Whereas pre-Communist Russia was anexporter of agricultural products, s .incethe Bolshevik Counter-revolution inOctober, ' 19l7, the Soviet Union hasbeen constantly in great need of agricultural imports. The Communists cannot feed themselves with their Marxisteconomic system of agricultural .colleCtivization and central planning .. amatter of fact, those Russians engagedin agriculture are each penn.itted a ~ e rsmall piece of {and where they i r ~ togrow whatever they Wish . r tltein-

selves - vegetables and produce, etc.Today these little, meager plots ofground produce one third of all the garden produce in the entire economy (freeenterprise . . . . in't it wonderful? ).The Communist Marxist economy. iscertainly a prime example of o ~~ a nfails when he relies totally on attemptsto organize societies on the basis of ter-

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ror, threat, and coercion instead of onthe basis of inspiration, liberty, and freedom and justice that emanates fromGod.

Dr. Anthony Sutton, one of the two

major American experts (the other isr . Miles Costick) on technology trans

fer from the West to the Soviet Unionover the past seventy years, has writtena unique three volume work, docu-

menting in great detail the historyof how the Soviet Government hasduped the West (Germany, France ,Great Britain, and especially the UnitedStates) to transfer all its technology toRussia . It is a sordid tale of as ~ s u a ldeceit, lies, thievery, unmet contract s,

theft of patents, forced renegotiation ofcontracts, and all the economic chicanery imaginable. This history verysimply and clearly shows what all traditional Ameri cans who have either dealtwith or been exposed to the Communists know: A Communist is n hoolj-2an . n international outlaw. an unteyentant criminal. and someone whocan never be trusted on any leyel by anAmerican.

Dr. Sutton 's three volumes clearl yshow how it has been the West, and theUnited States particularly, that has builtthe industrial infrastructure of the Soviet Union , providing almost all thefoundation for their war-making machine that today threatens the libertyand freedom of the entire world.3 Imight add parenthetically that wepeople of the United States today do nothave an annual budget for our militaryprotection of some three hundred billiondollars out of any threat to the American people from Bora Bora or Borneo; itis because of the mortal threat to oursurvival from a predatory Soviet Union,whom we Americans have, in our ignominious naivete, built up to such apowerful position of military strengthwith our loans at below market ratesand willing , even eager, transfer of ourtechnology, that is now being turnedagainst us to destroy us by the Kremlintotalitarians who vow to conquer theworld. All American heavily pressed taxpayers should know and e angered bythe ironic paradox of this moral perfidyon the part of our political leaders andsome of the large multi-national cor

porations whose greed has overcomeany love they might have had for theirnative land in doing business with ourmortal enemy. This foul treachery hasbeen generally promoted by our government and is being done so especiallynow in the las t administration of President Reagan, I'm very sorry to say. Thenow deceased former Secretary of Corn-

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merce, Malcolm Baldridge, was a strongadvocate of trade with the SovietUnion, as is the new Secretary of Commerce, Verity . t seems to me it is justplain treaSon to trade with an avowedenemy whose every action and doctrineis focussed on the destruction of theAmerican way of life and the imprisonment or execution of my family . Andto tax Americans three hundred billiondollars a year to protect us from an enemy we have raised up against us is .:an absurd outrage, to say the least ofit

n summing up this series of articles,it must be pointed out that the Communis ts proclaim and practice the exactantithesis in every way of all that Biblebelieving Christians must proclaim andpra ctice. There is no room for negotia

tion or compromise between two irreconcilable forces so opposite as these -the forces of Freedom or Communism.

Compromise is not possible . There canbe no compromise or appeaseinent ordilution of what Christians stand for inour relations with the Communists. fwe Americans think for a moment thatwe can do business of any kind with theCommunists , we are simply deludingourselves, and the destruction of ournation and our of lives awaits us . . . all twO hundred forty rni]lions of US I fwe continue in the future as we have inthe past

Christians especially know that one .cannot negotiate or compromise withsatan or with sin. They can only betotally rejected. And so it must be withthe Cortimunists and with Communism. Again Whittaker Chambers, in hisbOok, WITNESSt had somethirig im-portant to say on this particular poirit:

"Communism is what happenswhen, in the name of Mind, men freethemselves from God. But its view ofGod, its knowledge of God, its experience of God, is what alone givescharacter to a society or a nation, andmeaning to its de stiny. Its culture, thevoice .of this character, is merely thatview, knowledge ; experience , of God,ftxed by its .most intense spirits interms intelligible to the . mass of inen.There has never been a society or anation without God. But history is

cluttered with the wreckage of nationsthat became indifferent to God anddied." (pp. 16. 17)

"The crisis of Communism exists tothe degree in which it has failed to freethe .peoples that it rules from God .Nobody knows this better than theCommunist Party of the Soviet Union .The crisis of the Western world existsto the degree in which it is indifferentto God. It exists to the degree in whichthe Western world actually shares Communism's materialist interpretation ofhistory, politics and economics, that itfails to grasp that, for it, the only possible answer to the Communist challenge: Faith in God or Faith in man? isthe challenge : Faith in Go