We don't necessarily agree about religion, but I'll grant that religion, like any other belief, needs to be measured against reality. If your faith requires you to ignore the evidence, it's likely because you're following false teachings. Or at least misinterpreting them.
I was trying to remember which denomination it was (maybe Seventh Day Adventists?) which started out with a firm position that the world would end on some particular date in the 1800's. They had their folks all set to go. When it didn't happen, somehow they managed to reinterpret, without losing a beat, and continue as a viable religion. I note that the Bible makes it clear that if a prophet says something will happen, and it doesn't, you get rid of that prophet. My pastor, for one, won't say something is going to happen unless he's bloody sure.
So we come back around to the Commies. Their entire doctrine is based on Karl Marx. He said that there was to be a march of history, inevitably leading first to a worldwide dictatorship of the proletariat, then to a kind of benign anarchy in which government became largely unnecessary because people governed themselves. Well, not only did the dictatorship not appear to be moving toward self-governance after almost 80 years, but the march of history had clearly done a 180. So wouldn't this disprove the fundament on which the whole shebang was based?
If I went to church for 30 or 40 years, sacrificed, abstained, tithed, etc. and then someone put before me conclusive evidence that my religion was a false one, I'd be tempted to cover my eyes and ears and avoid the truth. That's essentially what the modern communist is doing. |
