Barely a week goes by that I don’t find myself in a distressing discussion about the direction of U.S. policy headed toward Socialism. Why should Socialism be a concern, particularily for Christians?  What’s the connection? Well,

I recently posted “Illegal in 52 Countries” which highlighted the countries where Christians are currently persecuted for their beliefs. What you may not know is the primary political system in those countries is Socialist. Among those include:

Marxist-Leninist/Socialist Republics/Communist States:

  • China
  • Cuba
  • Laos
  • North Korea
  • Vietnam

Non-Marxist-Leninist/Socialists:

  • Egypt
  • India
  • Libya
  • Sri-Lanka
  • Syria
  • Bangladesh

 

Here are a few quotes regarding Christianity based on Marixism/Socialism that raise concern:

  • Our Programme is based entirely on the scientific, and moreover the materialist, world-outlook. An explanation of our Programme, therefore, necessarily includes an explanation of the true historical and economic roots of the religious fog. Our propaganda necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism; the publication of the appropriate scientific literature, which the autocratic feudal government has hitherto strictly forbidden and persecuted, must now form one of the fields of our Party work. We shall now probably have to follow the advice Engels once gave to the German Socialists: to translate and widely disseminate the literature of the eighteenth-century French Enlighteners and atheists.     -Lenin(http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/dec/03.htm)

 

 

  • Religion is one of the forms of spiritual oppression which everywhere weighs down heavily upon the masses of the people, over burdened by their perpetual work for others, by want and isolation. Impotence of the exploited classes in their struggle against the exploiters just as inevitably gives rise to the belief in a better life after death as impotence of the savage in his battle with nature gives rise to belief in gods, devils, miracles, and the like. Those who toil and live in want all their lives are taught by religion to be submissive and patient while here on earth, and to take comfort in the hope of a heavenly reward. But those who live by the labor of others are taught by religion to practice charity while on earth, thus offering them a very cheap way of justifying their entire existence as exploiters and selling them at a moderate price tickets to well-being in heaven. Religion is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man.   -Lenin (http://www.newyouth.com/archives/classics/lenin/socialism_and_religion.html)

 

I don’t a whole lot about Socialism but I can see why, as a Christian, I should be aware of the potential of developing Socialism in the United States is NOT a good thing.