Marx and Satan by Richard Wurmbrand

Posted by admin_akashic on Feb 15th, 2022 in History, Human

Liberation theology is not an isolated phenomenon. It is the by-product of a general tendency to synthesize Marxism and Christianity; it is also seen in various forms of compromise in politics, art, economics, and so on.

Two Jews, Bernstein and Schwartz, composed the musical The Mass for the inauguration of the John Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington in 1971. In it, during the singing of the Kyrie Eleison, the Gloria, and the Credo, a band of singers and dancers howl their doubts:

God made us the boss;

God gave us the cross.

We turned it into a sword

To spread the word of the Lord.

We use his holy decrees

To do whatever we please. Yeah.

Give us peace that we don’t keep on breaking.

Give us something or we’ll just start taking.

We’re fed up with your heavenly silence,

And we only get action with violence.

The “Christian” multimillionaires present at the concert cheered. Their wives, apparelled in slit skirts and decollete bodices, bejeweled and befurred, joined in the applause. The music is now standard repertoire.

I can understand men like the priest Cardenal. There is a ring of truth in the feeling he expresses of solidarity with the Communists, who appear to him as champions of the cause of the poor-always near to the heart of Christians.

In the Bible Job is called a righteous man. He describes to his dubious friends the program of his life:

… I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him…. I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. And I broke the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth Job 29:12, 16, 17).

These words could be uttered by any revolutionist. Job continues:

Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor? (30:25). If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me, what then shall I do when God riseth up? (31:13, 14).

True believers have always reacted like this.

Cardenal’s assertion that “the church has always gone to bed with the state” is untrue. For example, the war of secession in the U.S.A., which led to the abolition of slavery, was influenced by Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written by a Christian lady, Harriet Beecher Stowe. She said simply, “The Lord wrote it.”