APPENDIX – CAN COMMUNISM BE CHRISTIAN?

Marxist “Christian” Theology

Ernesto Cardenal is a Catholic priest who is a self-avowed Communist and was active in the Communist government of Nicaragua. He is also one of the most prominent exponents of so-called liberation theology, which exists within both Catholicism and Protestantism and seeks to blend Christianity with communism.

Here are a few excerpts from his book The Zero Hour:

A world of perfect Communism is the kingdom of God on earth. They are the same thing for me…. Through the Gospel I have arrived at revolution; not through Karl Marx, but through Christ. The Gospel caused me to become a Marxist…. I have the calling of a poet and prophet….

Castro told me that the qualities of a good revolutionist are also the qualities of a good priest…. Let us not forget that the first Christians were the best Christians, i.e., revolutionary and subversive Christians….

Marxism is the fruit of Christianity; without Christianity, Marxism would be impossible; Marx would be unthinkable without the prophets of the Old Testament. Changing the system of production, we can create the new man of the Gospel…

The Mexican Jesuit Jose Miranda says in his book Marx aid the Bible that the Ten Commandments are Marxist, even the first commandment, to love God. For him, to love Jehovah above all means to love justice. If the church ever asserted anything else, it was a monstrosity.

I believe that the Communists, too, belong to the church. I believe the true church includes many who don’t perceive themselves as Christians, even those who consider themselves atheists. Many of these belong more to the church than some who sit in the Roman Curia.

Since Constantine, the church has always gone to bed with the state. If Christians and Marxists would read each other’s writings, there would be no conflicts any more between Christians and Socialism…. It seems to me that worker priests and revolutionists-the most progressive paw of the church-are inspired directly by the Holy Ghost.

For me the God of the Bible is also the God of Marxism-Leninism…. The apostle John says, “No one has seen God.” What the atheist Marxists say is very much akin to what Saint John says: “No one has seen God.”

Another writer quotes Cardenal as follows:

I am above all a revolutionist and as such fight for a Socialist country which is in the course of passing through a dictatorship of the proletariat, in which surely it cannot show itself feeble toward the enemies of its fatherland, not even in moments when one comes to the point of having to execute men for this purpose.

It is self-evident that a man who thinks like this has no trout a praising the regime in Cuba as a model of liberty.

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