With our culture ever embracing Socialism and Communism, you might wonder, what in the world is going on? Let’s peel back some of the layers and we’ll discover that the Devil really is in the details. Let’s understand why Socialism has become so attractive. And so, I’d like to take us back to the roots of the ideology and blow away some of the smoke.
American students, whether at the public school level or at the university level, are being propagated with ideologies that reject the Judeo-Christian values most of us share.
You think, “What in the world is going on? How could they be so misguided?” Well, here is the sad reality — many liberal churches have jumped onto the ideological bandwagon and have embraced what they call Liberation Theology. They began to reject the Judeo-Christian values of the Christian faith, saying that faith amounts to “White Colonialism.” And, they are embracing ideologies that lead toward absolute Atheism.
The origins of some of these errant ideologies — Communism, Socialism, and Critical Theory — come, by and large, from a man named Karl Marx. Karl Marx was born in Germany. He was a Jew. He was raised in a family that had become either Catholic or Lutheran by and large. But, at an early age, Marx began to disregard some of the beliefs of his parents and grandparents. When he entered a public university, he met a theology professor who was a strong Atheist. Yes, a theology professor who was an Atheist! Karl Marx gravitated to this man. They launched a newspaper for students and others advocating Atheism and rejecting specifically Christianity. In Trieste, Germany, one of the places where the Church first found a foothold in the nation of Germany, these two mocked Christians, even on their holy days, and they did things to gain attention and advocated for Atheism.
In time, Karl Marx developed not just a hatred for the Church and Christianity, but a fascination with the occult. He was drawn to satanic imagery and thoughts, and he became fixated on Hell and the Devil himself. Marx’s friends feared that he had become possessed! He exhibited a deep hatred of humanity in general and women in particular, and an absolute disdain for the Church.
His friends worried that he might have had a demon within him. This fact was documented in a great book by an author named Paul Kengor called The Devil and Karl Marx. Kengor documents how Marx embraced, not just the ideology of Atheism, but a hatred of all things specifically Christian. Marx himself admitted that he seemed drawn toward dark and evil thoughts, as if someone inside of him was convincing him to turn away from the true and living God.
We all know the rest of the story. Over the last 120 years, the Marxist ideology has caused more human suffering than any other ideology in the history of mankind. Why? Because people who embrace Marxist ideology reject God and they reject any kind of outside structure of beliefs concerning what is right and wrong. To them, mankind should be left to their own designs. Marxists also promote the emergence of a globally-held Humanism that they believe will lead to greater human prosperity.
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