Page 13 - The Basic Conflict between Christianity and Communism

will become apostates from law and order and morals, as well as sound political

action.

Karl Marx, sharing the frustrations and resentments of his people, turned his
restless and brilliant mind to concoct a set of economic and governmental theories

which he asserted would ultimately achieve a golden age of universal socialism, “The
Dictatorship of the Proletariat,” wherein all classes would be destroyed by bloody and
ruthless revolution.

Marx’ tremendous work entitled “Das Kapital” has become the accepted textbook
for the theory of Communism. It received acceptance, not only because it is more
ambitious in its scope than anything that had preceded, and because it is more
intricately wrought out and plausibly presented, but because it came at a time when

men’s minds were conditioned by economic pressures due to ceaseless wars plus
destructive propaganda along related lines, to give it a sympathetic hearing.

More than a half-century before Marx, was another member of his race by the name

of Adam Weishaupt who headed the French Illuminati to lawlessness and violence,
sowing the same seeds of economic discord that later appeared in Marx’ writings and
grew into the French Revolution with its cry of “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.”
Under the leadership of such monsters as Danton, Marat and Robespierre the cruelty

of this Reign of Terror chilled the blood of the whole of Europe.

Then came the socialistic French writers, Saint-Simon, Fourier, Louis Blanc and
Proudhon, all of whom greatly influenced the thinking of Marx, and from whom he

borrowed a number of ideas.

In England, Holland and Germany religious circles were deeply affected by the
movement that attacked the truth and authority of the Bible and called itself “Higher

Criticism”. The history of Europe cannot be understood aside from a knowledge of
the history of Christianity, and this assault upon the Bible which had been held
sacrosanct for centuries poisoned the life-stream of both faith and morals.

About the same time arose the doctrine of organic evolution in scientific and
educational circles popularized by Charles Darwin in The Origin of the Species and
The Descent of Man. Accepted in France and highly developed in Germany, this
doctrine assigns to man a bestial origin instead of being a product of Divine creation.

It makes him the helpless victim of an inexorable order that is materialistic and

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