RE: Bibles in Hotel Rooms
October 13, 2010 at 1:54 pm
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2010 at 2:02 pm by Anomalocaris.)
1. Communism is not a plauralistic form of government. It does not booker active opposition to it and its programs in any form, whether that opposition is from the intelligentia, the peasantry, the labor union, rival political parties, or the Church. A great part of the victims of communist regime in fact consist of atheists who disagree politically with communists. So let the Christians not play for particular sympathy.
2. The hostility between communists and main stream Christian clergy was not one sided, nor was it just between Christian church and the radical communists. Before anyone has heard of communists, mainstream Christian churchs was vehemently hostile against the social changes promoted by the Social democrates, and in many countries the church actively aided the secret police in rounding up and arresting social democrates. Only later did fractions of Social Democrates radicalized into outright atheistic communists. So the hostility is almost hereditary and by no means one purely of unincited oppression by the communists. In the end, the changes advocated by the Social democrats which the church opposed with such vigor, female sufferage, limited work week, paid holidays, disability insurance, became accepted as basis for civilized societies. Agents of god offered no explanation why they thought differently a century ago.
2. The hostility between communists and main stream Christian clergy was not one sided, nor was it just between Christian church and the radical communists. Before anyone has heard of communists, mainstream Christian churchs was vehemently hostile against the social changes promoted by the Social democrates, and in many countries the church actively aided the secret police in rounding up and arresting social democrates. Only later did fractions of Social Democrates radicalized into outright atheistic communists. So the hostility is almost hereditary and by no means one purely of unincited oppression by the communists. In the end, the changes advocated by the Social democrats which the church opposed with such vigor, female sufferage, limited work week, paid holidays, disability insurance, became accepted as basis for civilized societies. Agents of god offered no explanation why they thought differently a century ago.
