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RE: God and the new atheism.

in #religion6 years ago

You're a Marxist? I don't see how you could be one if you're a Christian. Communism is a religion. It's too incompetent of an economic system for any sane person to believe in it once they fully understand it. Communists have murdered 100 million people around the world. Not only that, Marxism is intellectually bankrupt. It's absurd to think an economy could be managed from the top down. In a Marxist society that controls food production you get mass starvation.

It gets worse. A communist country has no idea what things should be produced, what kinds, how many, what they cost to produce or what they should sell for.

Throughout history and around the world the economic systems are always variations of capitalism. It's the natural economic system of mankind. You see it in the Bible. God gave the Israelites their own land. It was distributed among the tribes, clans, and individuals. People were free to keep what flocks and herds they wanted, grow crops as they saw fit, or to learn a trade or all three.

This quote from 1984 really says a lot about the thinking of communists:

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were- cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"

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