An Essay About World Views at War in America: Christianity vs Marxism (and they cannot COEXIST!)
We are living in dangerous, confusing, and historic times in America. Racism is being exposed more deeply than ever before. Yet, at the same time the satanic ideology of Marxism is co-opting and embedding itself into this movement for truth and racial justice. The Church is teetering on the edge of an abyss, even if unaware of her precarious position. The Church must stand and fight against racial injustice – but how the church stands and fights will determine Her future. Will the Church fight for truth and justice with Kingdom weapons, or will She be sucked into a vortex of demonic darkness as the Church allows a Marxist culture to control Her choices?
At the end of this post, I have pasted links to 5 articles I have found helpful in explaining the Black Lives Matter movement, including the profoundly evil Critical Race theory, and the manifestation of Marxism in America today.
Ulysses S. Grant was one of America’s greatest generals. He was brilliant, creative, and relentless in the pursuit of victory in the American Civil War. He also believed the South’s cause was unjust. As President, he championed the rights of African Americans, including actively supporting passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments, and using the power of the Federal Government to suppress the KKK. More than almost any other person of his generation, except Abraham Lincoln, Grant fought the evil of slavery and racism. And yet, last week a mob pulled down his statue in San Francisco by members of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Racism is a dark stain on the history of America up till the present day. Most people, I believe, agree with this statement. Racism is a sin and like all sins is rooted in a power we call evil. But that does not make America an evil nation. We are an imperfect nation, founded and led by imperfect men, with imperfect citizens today. In other words, we are a nation of sinners. But America has also been a ‘light to the world’, a ‘city on a hill’. Imperfect though we are, we have ascribed to the vision, “All men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights”. We are still working out this vision, but most of us believe it is true. Of course, we need to repent and be repentant. But our sin does not mean that America’s history, culture, economy, values, and contributions to mankind must be torn down, desecrated, and replaced with another ideology.
Or does it? Is American culture so irredeemably evil that it must be totally ‘burned down’ and rebuilt from the ground up? There is a powerful movement in America today that says, “Yes, absolutely”. Tearing down the statues of Confederate soldiers across the South is one thing. Tearing down and desecrating statues of Grant, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and replacing 1776 with 1619 is an attempt to ‘cancel’ the entire history of America and in so doing, cancel America itself – leaving a blank slate upon which something completely new can be written and brought to life, is something completely different.
The problem is this “something new” is an old ideology that has a name and a history of its own rooted in an ancient spirit – the spirit of Babylon. This ideology is called Marxism. Marxism is not an unknown quantity. In fact, it is very well known. Marxism is an anti-Christ world view; a world view that hates God. Its explicit objective is replacing the world view of Christianity. Marxism is responsible for the deaths of 100s of millions of people in the 20th century and reigns of cruelty, horror, and malevolence in every nation this spirit has taken control. It is an ideology of chaos, total destruction of the good and beautiful. It comes disguised as light, promising equality, justice, freedom, brotherly love, and the betterment of everyone. The truth of Marxism is darkness, death, and brutality. Marxism is pure, unadulterated evil. It desecrates and defiles everything it touches.
Marxism is a good example of Isaiah’s prophesy, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness” (Isaiah 5: 20 NIV).
The French Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Communist Revolution in China and later the Cultural Revolution in that same country; North Korea, Fidel Castro and his Marxist revolution in Cuba (Don’t believe the propaganda. I have been to Cuba and met the people who live under the boot of communism. It is one of the world’s largest concentration camps. Life there is grim – unless you’re a tourist), Venezuela, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and of course, the Soviet Union, including its Eastern European ‘satellites’, all are/were Marxist states or movements. All are/were brutal, horrific causes of chaos and suffering. Although Nazi Germany was fascist, the spirit that plunged that country into chaos in WW 2 is the same spirit manifested in Marxism.
These nations experienced a Marxist revolution that began with the same theme – one group of people was singled out as the oppressors of another group. This is the first thing Marxism does – turn one group against another using real grievances; fracturing a nation into two or more groups or ‘tribes’, and convincing each group that there can never be common ground between them. Then convincing the oppressed group that what/who has oppressed them is so systemic and evil that nothing in that nation is redeemable, the culture of the nation (i.e. the culture of the ‘oppressor’) has to be torn down, obliterated, and from the ashes a new, better nation would rise. In order to bring about this transformation, social institutions like the police, rule of law, economic systems, property, the nuclear family, and religion have to be disrupted and destroyed; and inevitably, lives lost. In some cases, many lives. Marxism gives the oppressed permission to hate the ‘haters' -- haters being those who disagree with them.
The end result of a Marxist revolution is always the same: death and destruction; a grim life devoid of joy and light. It begins with riots, looting, and attacks on a nation’s history in the name of equality and justice. It is framed as a righteous cause, freeing the oppressed people from the oppressors. But, allowed to take root, always ends with mass suffering and enslavement of both the oppressors and the oppressed the revolution is supposed to set free. It is never about the oppressed – their plight is the Marxist’s means to an end. Marxist revolution always ends with the gas chamber, the gulag, or the guillotine, if not literally, then figuratively; and the enslavement of millions.
Paradoxically, even those whom the revolution is supposedly meant to set free are ultimately destroyed. No one is immune. During the Cultural Revolution the founders and participants of the first Communist takeover of China were denounced as insufficiently ideologically pure. Then they were executed or sent to prison camps.
Satan is no respecter of persons. His objective is to steal, kill, and destroy – total destruction and obliteration of everything God created. Some of the first things destroyed are love, joy, and peace. He hates God and He hates everything and everyone made in the image and likeness of God. These objectives and hatred are the hallmarks of Marxism.
This is the spirit that has been loosed in America today. Is it too dramatic to say that America is a nation at war; at least, a spiritual war? I think not. The rationale for this war is not the oppression of the workers, as Marx and Lenin first envisioned. The rationale for this war in America is racism and the revolution has its roots in the long history of slavery, racial hatred, and racial strife in the 1960s and 1970s.
In America, conversations about racism can be confusing and frustrating. This is because there are two definitions of racism in America today. The first definition of racism is the one most people are familiar with – racism occurs when one person judges or treats another person unjustly or inequitably based on their race and the color of their skin. The opposite of this type of racism is Martin Luther King’s dream – when America becomes a nation in which a man is not judged by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. This is the definition that drove the abolitionists in the 19th Century in America and England to fight against slavery and describes much of America’s opposition to racial injustice today.
This definition of racism is individualist – individuals are responsible for their own racist views and values. Hopefully, when made aware of their racist tendencies, individuals can change.
The second definition of racism has to do with power – who has it and who does not. According to this definition, those in power in America today are racist – and those in power are almost exclusively white. This definition is collectivist – it regards governments, corporations, and other organizations not as groups of individuals, but monolithic structures or collectives. If you are a member of a dominant group or collective, i.e. white in America today, no matter your personal opinions, you are a racist and, therefore, evil. This is the message of Critical Race Theory. Blacks, the argument goes, aren’t part of this group, therefore a black person cannot be a racist. If you are white, you can say you are not a racist, you can march at a Black Lives Matter protest and support their cause. You could have been active in the Civil Rights movement, even beaten as you stood with African Americans in Selma, Alabama. No matter. If you’re white, you’re part of the dominant collective, therefore, you’re a racist.
Of course, there are holes in this definition. For one thing, it is offensive to say that a person whose skin tone is darker is part of a ‘collective’. Each person is an individual; to ‘classify’ someone by skin tone is to dehumanize them. In particular, this definition assumes blacks in America are a monolithic group. This is not true. African Americans are members of every class in America. The biggest hole in this ideology is what happens if the revolution is successful and the formerly oppressed people seize power. Are they now the racists?
This second definition of racism is really not so much about a person’s skin color. This definition is about power – it is about taking power away from one group and giving it to another. It is classic Marxism. Race is the hook on which the Marxist movement is hung. It is a ‘good’ hook because there is racial injustice in America – there is truth in the Marxist lie. But in the end, for the Marxist it is not about racial justice, it is about one class taking power from another. Racism is the means to that end.
Marxists must destroy society and culture of a country for their world view to take root and thrive. In particular, to achieve their ends they must remove the foundations upon which every ordered society rests and flourishes: the rule of law, including the police, the criminal justice system, and prisons; the nuclear family, property ownership, personal wealth, capitalism and private corporations, the nation’s history, and especially religion.
Why religion? Marxism is a satanic ideology, opposed to God and His creation. For a deeply disturbing view of the relationship between Marxism and satan, read ‘Marx and Satan’ by Richard Wurmbrand. He is the founder of ‘Voice of the Martyrs’. In the book, Wurmbrand provides circumstantial but compelling evidence that Marx and Lenin were satanists. Wurmbrand calls Marxism, “Collective demon possession”. Two other important books written by Wurmbrand are ‘In God’s Underground’ and ‘Tortured for Christ’, both written about his time in a Romanian Communist prison. His warnings about Marxism are particularly important for America today.
“Marx wrote in the Communist Manifesto that his aim was the abolition not only of all religions, but also all morals, which would make everything permissible . . . Young people think that permissiveness means liberty. Marxists know better. To them, the formula means that it is forbidden to forbid cruel dictatorships like those in Red China and the Soviet Union. Dostoyevsky had said it already: “If there is not God, everything is permitted”. If there is not God, our instincts are free. The ultimate expression of this kind of liberty is hatred. Whoever is free in this sense considers loving-kindness a weakness of the spirit” (Wurmbrand, ‘Marx and Satan’, loc. 1632 of 2320 ebook).
“Let us remember that Marx’s ideal was to descend into hell and draw all mankind in after him” (Wurmbrand, ‘Marx and Satan’ loc. 1816 of 2320 ebook).
“Marxists are concerned with social and political problems, but these will have to be solved outside the tenets of Marxism. For Marx, socialism was only a pretense. His aim was to ruin mankind for eternity, a diabolical plan” (Wurmbrand, ‘Marx and Satan’, loc 1842 of 2320, ebook).
Satan hates God, all that God created, and all who worship God. This hatred is the core of Marxism. Satan is a liar, a deceiver, and a thief. He wraps himself in light, but he is darkness personified. The lie is that the Marxist revolution will make life better for the oppressed. The truth is that the revolution is not about the oppressed at all; it is about destroying everything that God created, all of God’s order, and replacing it with chaos, death, and suffering.
Marxism is a front for the worship of satan. Christianity and Marxism cannot coexist. The Church must decide.
Today, America is playing with fire. Our history is being deconstructed, our police are under attack, riots and looting are called necessary and are not prosecuted, cities are being taken over by mobs, freedom of speech no longer exists, people are taking a knee and bowing their heads to a movement, organizations like BLM are calling for the end of the nuclear family, property, and capitalism; some of mainstream media are a propaganda arm of the radical left; white people are called out, shamed, and vilified; hatred, anger, resentment, bitterness, and a spirit of revenge are all around us; lawlessness is celebrated or at least accepted, atheism is on the rise, the Church is seen as increasingly irrelevant, and no one knows what to believe because lies have replaced truth.
We are truly living in a time when good is called evil and evil good. What we are seeing openly released in America today is the ancient spirit behind Marxism – the spirit of Babylon.
Today, this Marxist movement is attacking the history of America and calling for the elimination of the criminal justice system in our country, including defunding the police. Next it is coming for the Church. I can imagine a day when Christians and Jews are persecuted – fired from their jobs, their businesses and homes seized or destroyed by the State, or convicted of hate crimes because they would not bow to, for example, the LGBT culture, or a thinly veiled Marxist ideology. I can imagine a day when committed Christians in America are imprisoned. I see in my spirit a time when the radical left writes down the license plate numbers or names of Christians who enter church on Sunday and later attacks the homes of those Christians, maybe even harming them physically because, they say, the Christian faith is a religion of hate. The objective of the spirit of Marxism is the eradication of the Church of Jesus Christ and Israel. It has been so in every Marxist nation over the last 100 years.
God knows better. The Church thrives under persecution. Perhaps God’s plan and purpose for this crazy and dangerous time in America is to drive the true Church underground where it will grow stronger.
Suddenly, America finds herself in the midst of a cultural war or revolution whose seeds were planted decades ago, but are exploding on the American scene today. And events are moving rapidly. What can Christians do today to fight this war?
That is a good question. There are many things Christians around the world can to do to fight the satanic world view of Marxism. Look for my next post, “Our Battle Is Not Against Flesh and Blood” for a look at our ‘weapons’.
The Church in America has to make a choice – will we enter a new age through the wide gate and the broad road, which leads to destruction, including the destruction of our culture and the lives of all our citizens? This road is, ‘Man’s will, man’s work, man’s way’ in which social justice is the ultimate objective or idol, leading to man’s view of justice, which is punitive and rarely changes a life, and more disunity and slavery. Or will we take the narrow gate and the steep road, which leads to life? This road is ‘God’s will, God’s work, God’s way’ – it is the Kingdom way in which there is freedom and justice for every person; where justice is always redemptive and restorative (because it changes the human heart by the power of the Holy Spirit — the only way a heart is changed), and leads to unity.
The Kingdom way is superior to the world’s (or satans’s) way. The Kingdom way is the narrow road of love, not hate; peace, not anger; forgiveness, not revenge and bitterness; order, not chaos; the power of God, not the power of satan; truth, not lies; grace, not cruelty and vengeance; hope, not despair; faith, not fear; freedom, not intimidation; building up, not tearing down; and life, not death. I will march with any group whose demands for truth and justice are rooted in these Kingdom principles.
The Kingdom way is the way in which one life matters – the life of Jesus. And where the life of Jesus matters, all lives matter because Jesus died for all people. There is freedom in the Kingdom of God.
We can place our lives in the hands of Jesus, or we can sign up for a life under bondage to satan. Our choice. And if we choose Jesus, will we live and possibly die for that choice?
Trying to depend upon Him for everything,
John
Here are the links to 5 articles that document and explain, in more detail, the points I made above:
https://thecripplegate.com/a-biblical-analysis-of-the-black-lives-matter-organization/
https://medium.com/handwaving-freakoutery/the-two-confusing-definitions-of-racism-2d685d3af845