Lenin's Revolution Vs. Luther's Reformation- Marvin Olasky

"Why, when the historical evidence is so clear, does communism periodically rear its exceptionally ugly head, sometimes in profile as "Christian socialism" and sometimes in full-monty flare? Part of the appeal lies in the thrill of overturning God-given patterns of family and enterprise and substituting our own. Part is power seeking. Part is satanic.
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In his 1952 book, "Witness," Whittaker Chambers wrote that Communism "is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: 'Ye shall be as gods.' It is the great alternative faith of mankind. … The Communist vision is the vision of Man without God."
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