With another surge in gun violence in Philadelphia, local police, government leaders and others are now calling for residents to turn in their firearms in order to save lives. Here A man was seriously injured when a violent crowd of Portland protesters brutally assaulted him after he crashed his truck in the downtown area. here CHAPTER 5 “WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN GOD” LENIN’S NECROPHILIA “Communism begins where atheism begins,” declared Marx.253 In the Communist Manifesto, he and Engels remarked, “Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality.”254 The apostles of Marx and Engels took that to heart. In communist Russia, the Bolsheviks in particular picked up the spear. “A fight to the death must be declared upon religion,” asserted Nikolai Bukharin, founding editor of Pravda and one of Lenin’s and Stalin’s leading lieutenants, adding counsel to “take on religion at the tip of the bayonet.”255 Bukharin spoke for the Bolsheviks: “Religion and communism are incompatible, both theoretically and practically. … Communism is incompatible with religious faith.” He also spoke for Marx: “‘Religion is the opium of the people,’ said Karl Marx. It is the task of the Communist Party to make this truth comprehensible to the widest possible circles of the laboring masses.”256 The Bolsheviks would do just that. Communists worldwide would do just that. Such was the atheist legacy bequeathed by Marx. One of the most brutally restricted rights by communist governments was, and remains, the freedom to worship, which communists always and everywhere have attacked with a wild fervor and devotion. In a sense, it LIVE NOTES FOR THE RAGGED EDGE RADIO . COM by Russ Dizdar 3 is strange that atheistic communists felt so mortally threatened by their people believing in something they insisted did not exist. Yet, communists not only cared about that worship but became utterly obsessed with stopping it. Belief in God stood in the way of the totalitarian desire to transform human nature. God was a competitor to communist control of the body, mind, and spirit of man that Marx and Lenin wanted to redefine in their own image. In other words, the communists rightly recognized that belief in God was the chief impediment to the imposition of their atheist creed. “That Religion of Theirs” Kengor, Paul. The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration . TAN Books. Kindle Edition
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