Millions perished in the great purges of Lenin and Stalin. Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest WW2 battles, recorded over 1 million Russian Army casualties in a single battle; 13,000 of which died by a direct bullet in the back by their own Soviet authorities. Mao, also a disciple of Marx, unleashed his own killing spree when he authorized the executions of over 30 million of his own Chinese people during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. As bad as these atrocities are, they pale in comparison to the most tragic and voiceless victim of Marx's ideology: human dignity and pride. When you force all the people of any given society to be economically equal - - casting aside all effort, incentive, merit and skill - - something in the human psyche dies. The spirit and grandeur of man is reduced to a mere nameless cog in a pitiless machine. I came across this quote a few years ago that I think perfectly expresses the "death of the soul" when the government takes over and does the thinking for people; which naturally, all Marxist regimes are designed to do. This quote is written by a European writer from the 1920's as he editorialized on the rise of repressive governmental control all over Eastern Europe that he witnessed firsthand. What surprised him the most was how the minds of the younger generations were so malleable and susceptible to government indoctrination. And he says this was achieved through "gratis"- handouts and top-down manipulation of the press, industry, education and commerce. He writes: "This generation has become accustomed to having the entire content of their lives delivered gratis, so to speak, by the public sphere, all the raw material for their deepest emotions, for love and hate, joy and sorrow, but also their sensations and thrills...they had never learned to live within themselves, how to make an ordinary private life great, beautiful, and worthwhile, how to enjoy it and make it interesting. They also were bored, their minds strayed to silly thoughts, and they began to sulk...The menace of monotony hung with their colorless towns; and they had a yearning for "salvation" through alcohol, superstition, or best of all, through a vast, overpowering, cheap intoxication. There were some, however, who learned, as it were, how to live. They began to enjoy their own lives, weaned themselves from the cheap intoxication of the sport of revolution, and started to develop their own personalities...there were a few who learned to appreciate, what a wealth of simple joy and what a pleasure you can find from simple eating and drinking, intellectual debate, cultivation of gardens, the companionship of animals, and the sports and hobbies one pursues with childlike gravity. Instead, young people themselves were familiar with nothing but political clamor and anarchy. They viewed private life as "boring," "bourgeois," and "old fashioned." Three things caught me eye with this statement: (1) The concept of gratis. "Without charge, free": This is the same word for grace. But this kind of grace is different than the biblical concept of grace, it is not God's love expressed for his people, it means the handouts given to the people from the government. The root of governmental gratis is not based on love but the attainment of power. The trade is simple: money for power. Power can be bought, but where does any government get it's money? They take from one group of people (usually the group that threatens their power); and they give to another group of people they are aiming to enslave and own. They pass this economic exchange off as compassion, but it often is a manipulative tool to subjugate the citizenry. As a result, the government becomes a god of sort, but a passionless god, a manipulative god, a corrupt god. (2) People who receive reward without earning it, over time, become bored. People are made to work, to dream, to accomplish things. Marx himself praises the different trades and skills of people. But if reward and compensation is not predicated on degree of skill and risk, but only on equality of outcome, humans will get lazy...they will sulk. (3) We become happy people when we become personally independent people. Marxism makes you wait for the state to provide your identity...and they wont leave you alone to decide this on your own. Everything becomes political, from fatherhood, to how you treat your neighbor. The state decides morality, and the majority of people will gladly let them decide morality. So the advice we once received from parents, pastors and priests have been replaced by politicians and public school teachers. What once was a European problem has seeped into every corner of American life. People must now care about what the government tells us to care about. Currently, the number one concern and crisis that we must all have an opinion on is racism and police brutality. Don't you realize, it is everyone's fault for this national crisis and lack of dialogue on racism. The state tell us it is a systemic problem that can only be dealt with by the Whitehouse. Next week we must all be up in arms against the minimum wage. Next week, we must all buy into the propaganda about the fairness of Obamacare or we will be labeled as cold-hearted bigots. The ultimate crime is to lack compassion on a national level. The needs of your family and friends are dwarfed by your responsibility to support the most recent legislative decision made in D.C. And all the major media outlets insist you form an opinion on these decisions. Of course, it must be their opinion. You better support and fight for equal support of gay marriage, because if you don't you have no moral grounds to feel proud of your child's right to have a traditional marriage? Everything is now political. Nothing can just be personal. That is the nature of Marxist thought, it is parasitical: it is designed to live off of the healthy and good lives of the people who just want to be left alone. So to survive, it kills your freedom and leaves human dignity in it's wake!
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Keith
12/31/2014 07:57:39 am
Unfortunately I see this happening in the church. People becoming lazy and letting the person at the pulpit tell what the Bible says and just letting it be. "Jesus says to love so we must accept all people". So everything is tolerable as long as it's shrouded in "love". There is still sin and Christians need to read and engage the Bible regularly. Thanks, Chris, for teaching the truth.
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