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Posted by
Olog-hai
on Tue Nov 24 00:30:11 2009, in response to MSNBC: The Whitest Channel On Your Cable Box, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Nov 23 17:14:21 2009.
edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Ah dunno. Sometimes seems like the House Un-American Activities Committee wasn't a bad thing after all in retrospect, because a lot of this stuff is occurring (or has already come to pass) in a creeping manner:
Forty years ago, Communism was just a plot in the minds of a very few peculiar people.
Today, Communism is a world force governing millions of the human race and threatening to govern all of it.
Who are the Communists? How do they work? What do they want? What would they do to you?
For the past ten years, your committee has studied these and other questions and now some positive answers can be made. Some answers will shock the citizen who has not studied Communism closely. Most answers will infuriate the Communists.Communism and ReligionThis is to tell you what will happen to you and your church if Communism ever takes over the United States of America.
The long and the short of it is this: You cannot be a Communist and believe in God. You cannot believe in God and have a peaceable life under Communism. In all their plans and actions, the Communists mark down religion as Enemy No. 1. Where they dominate, they attack it head-on. Where they do not dominate, they try to deceive and corrupt from within just as they do with government, in education, in labor unions and throughout a nation's life in general.
The aim and object of Communism is always the same—complete control over the human mind and body, asleep and awake, in sickness and in health, from birth to death. That is why Communism marks down religion as Enemy No. 1, for religion in some form is always a basic influence in the life and thinking of any people.Questions and answers- If Communism should come to the United States, could I belong to a church?
You would have to choose at once between church and Communism. If you should choose the church, then prepare for persecution.
- What would the Communists do to churches and synagogues?
Take them over and put an end to the freedom guaranteed by Sentence One, (Amendment) One in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…".
- Would the Communists destroy the Bible?
Every copy they could find. And they would jail anybody trying to print new copies.
- Could I be married in the church?
Not legally.
- Could my funeral be held in the church?
Not legally.
- Would my child go to Sunday or Sabbath school?
Not only would Sunday school be illegal, but also your child would be taught to report you to the police for sending him.
- How would my child learn his religion, then?
Only through what you would might tell him at home, to offset the positive atheism he would learn all week at the government school.
- You mean the government would teach atheism?
Yes. Here is the rule laid down by Nikolai Lenin, leader of the Communist Revolution in Russia in 1917 and founder of the Red government now headed by Josef Stalin:Down with religion! Long live atheism! The spread of atheist views is our chief task! That rule has not changed.
- Could I give money to the church?
Yes, if the Communist government would allow you any; but then most of it would go for staggeringly high taxes, rent and other fees charged by the government to discourage church operations. Anything left could go to feed the preacher, who would be little better off than a beggar anyhow.
- Who would own the churches?
Under Communism, churches and synagogues could no longer own their own property, free, clear and untouchable, as they do in the United States today. Church property would become government property. Congregations could only use such small rooms or buildings as the government might license to them on concession. The fees and charges for this would be heavy and all use would be subject to strict Communist control, review and supervision.
- How about my own churchgoing?
You could try on your own time, if the government happened at the time to let you off work on a holy day. Otherwise, only at night, when and if you got the chance.
- Would I be allowed time off for religious holidays and celebrations as now?
Not a chance.
- What is the Communist faith?
"Marxism-Leninism", as operated by Josef Stalin.
- What's all that?
A plan and method to rule the world. The man who drew up that plan was Karl Marx, who lived from 1818 to 1883.
The man who put the plan into action in real life was Nikolai Lenin, who lived from 1870 to 1924, and led the world Communists to capture Russia in 1917-18.
The man who made the plan a world force was Josif Vissarionovich Djugushvili, alias Josif Stalin, now living, and 67 years old, who followed Lenin in command of the world Communist conspiracy.
- What was Marx's idea of a Communist world?
That the world as we know it must be destroyed—religion, family, laws, rights, everything. Anyone opposing was to be destroyed, too.
Marx wanted a world in which people owned no property, took orders from the Government without question, and let their family life—husbands, wives, parents and children—be without religion, morals or ideals as we know them.
- What was (Marx's) idea of morality and family?
That anything is moral—even lying, stealing and murder—if it brings on Communism.
That women should have children for the Communist state to educate, train and use, but parents should have no say in training according to their own ideas.
That there is no need to fear God because He does not exist.
Marx had the idea that people could never be happy, have enough to eat, make enough money, or have success in the kind of world we know. The U.S.A. is living proof that he was as wrong as a man can be.
- Was Marx crazy?
Perhaps. But Marx was not the first evil and crazy man to start a terrible world upheaval, nor was he the last. Hitler was like that too, but look at what he did.
- Did all the Russians turn Communist?
Neither then nor now. Only a few trained and disciplined favorites were or are allowed to be Communist.
- Do the Communists pretend to tolerate religion today?
No. Since the end of World War II, the Russian Government has renewed open war against religion in all forms, although in some countries Communists pretend to tolerate it to serve their propaganda purposes.
- How do we know this?
A recent statement in an official Soviet newspaper listed the stamping out of religious faith "by systematic, scientific, anti-religious propaganda" as "the most important task in the struggle for the triumph of Communism in the U.S.S.R."
- Are Communists trying to corrupt religion in the U.S.A.?
Yes.
- What is their method?
The Communist Party in the United States assigns members to join churches and church organizations, in order to take control where possible, and in any case to influence thought and action towards Communist ends.
It forms "front organizations", designed to attract "fellow travelers" with religious interests.
It tries to get prominent religious leaders to support Communist policies, disguised as welfare work for minorities or oppressed groups. In the words of Earl Browder, former head of the Communist Party of the U.S.A.:"…By going among the religious masses, we are for the first time able to bring our anti-religious ideas to them." - Are the Communists just trying to get my church?
No. They're also out to get your job, to get your union, to get your farm, to get your school, to get your property, to get your Government. They're out to get you and make you a slave of Communism from cradle to grave. If they can wreck your religion, that makes you just so much easier to capture and enslave.
- Has any nation ever gone Communist in a free election?
No.
- Then how do the Communists try to get control?
Legally or illegally, any way they can. Communism's first big victory was through bloody revolution. Every one since has been by military conquest, or internal corruption, or the threat of these. Conspiracy is the basic method of Communism in countries it is trying to capture. Iron force is the basic method of Communism in countries it has already captured.
- But don't the Communists promise an end to racial and religious intolerance?
Yes, but in practice they have murdered millions for being religious and for belonging to a particular class. Your race would be no help to you under Communism. Your beliefs could get you killed.
- How many Communists are there in the world?
There are 20,000,000 Communists, more or less, in a world of 2,295,125,000 people. In other words, about one person in 115 is a Communist, on a world basis.
- How many people are now ruled by Communism?
About 200,000,000 directly, 200,000,000 more indirectly, and an additional 250,000,000 are under daily Communist pressure to surrender. (That means 20 million who believe in and want Communism are forcing it on 400 millions who do not believe in it or want it, and threaten to conquer 550 million more. Instead of rule by the majority, that is rule of 400 million by 20 million—two imposing their will and form of government upon 40 who do not want it.)
- Which countries are Communist controlled or governed?
Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Yugoslavia. Important regions of Austria, Germany, Korea, Mongolia and Manchuria. Communism is concentrating now on immediate capture of Afghanistan, China, France, Greece, Latin America, Iran and Palestine. It has plans to seize every other country—including the United States.
- How many Communists are there in the United States?
There are approximately 80,000 out of a population of 145,300,000 people. J. Edgar Hoover has testified that "in 1917 when the Communists overthrew the Russian government, there was one communist for every 2,277 persons in Russia. In the United States today, there is one communist for every 1,814 persons in the country. … What is important is the claim by Communists themselves that for every Party member there are ten others ready, willing and able to do the Party's work. Herein lies the greatest menace of Communism."
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