Page 7 - The Basic Conflict between Christianity and Communism

Introduction

We propose to show in this series of articles that Christianity and Communism are

two utterly opposite and mutually exclusive systems. So exclusive are they, the one of
the other that they cannot possibly co-exist within the same personality, provided that
that personality is an informed and rational being. Of course in this age of confusion
in which we live, there is a vast amount of ignorance concerning the true facts that lie

behind popular issues and mooted questions.

The high degree of literacy obtaining in many nations today together with the
immense increased facility for the dissemination of ideas through the floods of stuff

being disgorged from the presses of the world and the blare of millions of radios in
every language of the globe, in the more advanced nations enhanced by eye-catching
demonstrations by television, have produced a rat-race of competition for men’s
minds.

Our grandparents of a hundred years ago would not have understood what was
meant by the word “propaganda.” That word came in with the advent of selfish
totalitarians, who proceeded form the thesis that if you keep telling people the same

things over enough times the blackest lie from the pit will become glided truth to
them.

The ignorance of our forebears of the word “propaganda” is a proof of the

comparative virginity of their minds and of the uncoerced quality of their thinking.
Their knowledge of local and world events was derived from the weekly county-news
or an occasional glimpse of a metropolitan daily or a dignified magazine, and their
leisure-reading consisted of the ancient philosophers or the masters of prose, poetry

and essay, and best of all the Holy Scriptures.

By the same token the Oriental scholars through the centuries of the imperial
dynasties their homes uninvaded by trashy magazines, the lowest common

denominator of East and West, and their ears unbuffeted by high-pressure economic
theories hatched in the Occident, could peruse in unhurried tranquility the four books
and the five classics and enjoy the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius.

The amazing advance in the field of scientific research and invention has been
accompanied by a commensurate retrogression in the realm of abstract ideas. The
propagandists having done their thinking for them and dinned their ideas into them
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