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(the while carefully shielding them from ideas to the contrary) have still contrived to

make them think they are thinking for themselves.

The difference between a propagandist and a proclaimer of truth lies in this ─ that
the latter knows that while truth may be attacked and maligned it cannot be refuted.

Truth is of the light and thrives on light and needs to be at no pains to forcibly
suppress the opposition. The propagandist on the other hand knows that his stuff will
not bear close inspection because it is shot through with lies and misrepresentations,
so he is compelled to quench and silence every voice that challenges his case.

There are two kinds of ignorance ─ one is the ignorance of the uninformed and
unsullied mind, a harmless and healthy condition in itself, only dangerous in that it is
susceptible to the rape of the propagandist. The other kind of ignorance is that of the

mind in complete captivity to a propaganda of lies and half- truths and over which the
“No Admittance” sign is hung for the totality of truth. In the words of the Savior,
“The light that is in them is darkness…HOW GREAT IS THAT DARKNESS!”

From the by-paths of the foregoing contemplations, we return to our original
proposition that Christianity and Communism cannot co-exist in the same mind and
heart, provided the mind is informed and rational. We are prepared, moreover, to
defend the assertion that every mind which is truly Christian is informed and rational,

though we admit with sorrow that even the sacred precincts of Christendom have been
profaned by the unhallowed feet of the propagandists who have “changed the truth of
God into a lie” and attempted to identify the message of Christ, the Man from Heaven
with the teachings of Karl Marx the agent of Hell. Among such are the ignorant and

irrational as the deliberate perverters of truth. We repudiate them all as unqualified to
speak for Christianity.

It will be impossible in the comparatively short compass of these pages to give a

complete study of the philosophy either of Christianity (the system of truth contained
within the Holy Scriptures) or of Marx and his contemporary Engels and their
successors Lenin and Stalin, but we shall try to give an epitome of each and show
how they are at variance at every point.

The Age Long Conflict

Both Christianity and Communism recognize that there has been a conflict of forces
through the whole course of human history, sometimes flaming forth in open warfare
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