Attacking Churches Has Always Been the Marxist Playbook

0:01 That obsession with the demonic and with tearing down faith and destroying it truly extends into Marx's personal life and philosophy. How and why exactly did he become an atheist? What happened between those teenage years and college years that really flipped him? The best that I can determine, he came under the influence of a professor in college named Dr. Bruno Bower. But he and Marx became very tight, very close. and he and Markx pulled a couple stunts. In one case, they went to a nearby village on um for Palm Sunday and rode in on donkeys together kind of mocking the entrance of Christ into Jerusalem. The devil hates to be mocked, but the devil mocks Christ. The devil mocks God, right? They would go into churches together, he and Bruno Bower, and laugh and kind of make noise in the pew just to be disrespectful. I find that fairly despicable and also unsurprising because the regimes that would follow in the 20th century and adopt Marxist ideology were not merely atheist but explicitly militantly anti-religion the Soviet Union the Mauist regime pulp pots Cambodia North Korea all of them actively seek to destroy and murder religious believers I mean Marx's secret love was poetry and it's it's deeply disturbing urbing stuff. All right. It a lot of it is about the devil. U you thus heaven I forfeited. I know it full well.

1:31 My heart once true to God is chosen for hell. That's his poetry from from an early age. And by the way, he he had a favorite line from Mephostophles which was uh in fact they said this was Marx's favorite quote. Everything that exists that's the liarish. >> Exactly. That's exactly >> everything that exists must perish. That's his favorite line from Faust's Mephostophles. Even if you don't believe in a transcendental world in God or in heaven or hell or Satan, if you have any notion that there's such thing as human goodness or human evil, Carl was playing in the world of the evil and his ideas played out that way in history. this burn it all to the ground abolitionism that embodies Markx and that was clearly embedded in his psychology in deep and fundamental ways is a siren call and it's one that we have to work really hard to keep our kids from being sucked into because it is a vortex of despair the Soviet Union mau China Cambodia North Korea Venezuela Cuba all of these regimes were as close to Marx as we could get. They tried to abolish God, burn down churches, imprisoned nuns and priests. They were being pretty Marxist.

2:50 And I know from firstirhand experience that the first thing that happens when you talk about Marxism and communism is all the Marxists come out of the woodwork to say that's not the real Marx. Real communism's never been tried. Call it whatever you like, but on the spectrum between some perfect free enterprise society and perfect communist hell hole, we got as close as you want to get in the 20th century to the latter. And the results speak for themselves.

3:19 Destroying culture, destroying civilization is in the DNA of Marxism. Even in classic Marxism, they did that day one. they took um took over uh power in China and that's 1949. In the very beginning they were giving go ahead to destroy everything that is considered old the four olds old ideas old culture old habits and old custom that means anything that's left uh in China that's considered old uh statues temples churches and uh um mosques books everything everything has to be destroyed.

4:04 >> When you talk about what Mao was doing, he was trying to rewire the Chinese people into different kinds of people. He was trying to be God. It seems like to me, basically every communist country went to war on religion, especially and especially Ma. He called religion the opiate of the masses. Um why from your perspective why did religion become such a a central attack of the communists? >> It's all about power. That's why I think it's important you brought up the uh the religion. Why they are all uh after the religion? Because they want to control people's mind. And so um some people say that uh um uh um communism is um atheism.

4:56 I don't think so. The more I uh now the more I I I really uh think about what I been through and uh and and read more. It is a a religion. It replaced the old religion. It become a new religion and everything they did is absolutely uh religious. And in China and we have uh uh we have a god that is Mao and uh uh growing up we have our little Bible and that is uh M's little red book and we have uh a political study which is our uh going to church and uh and we have our confession which is criticism and self criticism.

5:45 So even as little kid we every week we're going to have a political study session and that session you you're going to confess you're going to uh we we will read Ma's little red book and we will say that uh I did not do this and this right according to mouse instruction and also I saw you did not do this and this right and then so we uh we criticize each other and we denounce ourselves and We swear we're going to do better and that is like a that is religion. So what they want is really control people's mind and to me that is more dangerous than control what you can eat, where you can be, where you can go.

6:30 They control people's mind. I never was able to even think. I never had one original thought and uh all I did was uh uh follow instruction of the party of what the party told me and to me that is real slavery that is absolutely control everything control your mind and uh it's the worst type of slavery that ever invented and that is communism the indoctrination absolutely um changed the people's world view. I think in America today the dominant world view is Marxist worldview. It's no longer biblical. I saw the change since I came here in mid 1980s. I saw this change. I think today I think it's become dominant. I think even the conservatives a lot of them look through the lens that is basically Marxist and how to fix this problem and we have to understand this problem did not occur overnight.

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