1.2.2 The Central Role of the Economic

There have been three secular ‘prophets’ of modernity whose voices we need to listen to if we want to understand our contemporary world. These three are Marx, Freud and Nietzsche. Marx underlined the force of the economic drive in people. Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, argued that everything in the human being is controlled by his sexual drive. Finally, Nietzsche talked about the will to power that controls every human being on this earth. Because of the quasi-religious connotations of their thought- systems and of the totalitarian claims that they made, all three authors saw Christianity as the arch-enemy to be removed at all costs in order for the human being to be free to become what they thought he should become.

1.2.1 The Marxist System of Thought as an Ideology

Definition – Political ideology is a set of ideas and principles that explain how society should work (ex. theocracy, totalitarianism, social democracy, communism, anarchy, fascism, imperialism, liberalism, etc.).

Every society has an ideology that forms the basis of its ‘public opinion’ or common sense, a basis that usually remains invisible to most people within the society. This is why so many people in a society often seem to ‘think alike’. On the surface, this dominant ideology appears as ‘neutral’, while those ideas that differ from the norm are seen as negative or antagonistic. Ideology also involves a certain ethical dimension.

1.1.7 Marxist Eschatology

Definition – Eschatology is the doctrine or understanding of the future and particularly of the end of history (from Gk. eschata – ‘the last things’).

Communism promotes a sort of ‘atheistic millenarianism’ – a promise to establish heaven on earth through human means, with no reference to God.

Marxist ideology is based on the myth of determinism, according to which the historical destiny of humanity is controlled, in a supposedly scientific manner, by a perfect chain of cause and effect. Thus, by knowing this historical mechanism, the new ‘enlightened’ man can participate in the creative transformation of the world and society.

The 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall passed with some fanfare on November 9. Speaking as someone born in the 1980s, I admit that it is difficult to remember much about the divided Europe that this wall symbolized. Stories of the oppressive Communist rule in East Germany strike me as far-removed, not the grim reality for millions as recently as 1989. I remember much more clearly the exultant speeches delivered by Western politicians as Communism collapsed elsewhere in the following years. Today, it is easy for all of us to forget that many millions live in worse conditions than even the East Germans endured. Indeed, the totalitarian government of North Korea imprisons an entire nation that once enjoyed the blessing of revival.
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1.1.6 Communism as Soteriology

Definition – Soteriology is the doctrine or teaching about salvation (from Gk. soteria – salvation).

Marxism has a fundamentally soteriological character. It proposes a ‘way of salvation’ from humanity’s distorted condition.

This search for salvation, which forms the basis of any soteriological system, presupposes that something is wrong with humanity and the world. Christianity agrees with Marxism on this point, but that is where all similarities end. From this point on, they differ both over the definition of the problem (as we have seen above) and (even more so) in terms of the proposed solution.

Richard Foster & Gayle Beebe,Tânjirea după Dumnezeu. Şapte căi ale devoţiunii creştine, Editura Casa cărţii, Oradea, 2009

Calea a doua – Viaţa spirituală ca o călătorie

Prezentare de Estera Popovici

Preocuparea autorilor cărţii Tânjirea după Dumnezeu, Richard Foster şi Gayle Beebe, este aceea de a studia şi de a înţelege meandrele procesului de formare spirituală a creştinului. Ca punct iniţial al acestui traseu ei consideră prioritatea iubirii faţă de Divinitate; această iubire este văzută ca principiu ordonator al tuturor celorlalte „iubiri” şi acţiuni ale omului.

1.1.5 Communism as Religion of Hate

From the previous arguments we may easily understand that communism is not a culture of life and love but an expression of pure revolutionary hatred, as if the virus of hatred were consuming the hearts of people who hold communist beliefs.

The saying, with original reference to the French Revolution of 1789, according to which ‘the revolution devours its own children’ is also true about communism.

MINISTERUL DE INTERNE
INSPECTORATUL JUD. MEHEDINŢI
Nr. „S”/S.I./0000205
[05.1974]

Către U.M.01050

O sursă a organelor noastre ne informează că a asistat la o discuţie purtată între Serg. T.R. Mănăstireanu Dănuţ U.M.01050 Tr. Severin şi MUCEA MIHAELA Str. Decebal nr.24 A Bl. X, ap.1 IAŞI, iar în discuţiile purtate primul a relatat următoarele:

„În seara aceasta vreau să fim din nou pentru câtva timp împreună… Domnul a fost cu mine…

Aş vrea să-ţi spun mai mult despre ziua de azi. Am primit o nouă învoire şi m-am întâlnit iarăşi cu scumpa familie. Am stat puţin acolo, am mâncat, am cântat apoi puţin acolo, am fost la cineva să înregistrăm câteva cântări la magnetofon. Acolo am avut posibilitatea să discutăm puţin cu XXXX [Tabita Corlan]. Este o fată inteligentă. Sper că odată voi avea posibilitatea să discut mai mult, nu numai cu ea, dar şi cu ceilalţi fraţi şi surori ale ei.

1.1.4 Marxist Sociology

Definition – Sociology is the study of the individuals, groups and institutions, and the relationships between them, which make up human society.

Auguste Compte (1798–1875), associated in his youth with the socialist utopian Saint-Simon, was the father of sociology. His seminal work was significantly entitled A System of Positive Politics or A Textbook of Sociology that Institutes the Religion of Humanity. He proposes a religion without God in which humanity takes the place of its Creator.

Marxism took over the project formulated by Compte and gave it a new impetus by making it an instrument of social engineering. This exercise in social transformation was based on the Myth of Reason (as was the philosophy of the Enlightenment), and also on the Myth of Science which became the new ‘religion’ of this social model.

MINISTERUL DE INTERNE
INSPECTORATUL JUD. MEHEDINŢI
Nr. „S”/S.I./00203
din 20.05.1974

Către UM1050

O sursă a organelor noastre ne informează că asistând la o discuţie purtată între Serg. T.R. MĂNĂSTIREANU DĂNUŢ din U.M.01050 Tr. Severin şi XXXX Sat XXXX Jud. Bihor, în discuţii primul a relatat următoarele:

„…Aici o duc destul de bine cu serviciul militar. Duminica putem ieşi în oraş. Cunosc pe cineva aici în Tr. Severin. M-am întâlnit şi cu fraţii, lucru care mi-a prilejuit o mare bucurie. Asta n-a rămas fără urmări, însă mulţumesc d-lui că el este cu mine şi mă păzeşte în dragostea sa. Ce-mi va rezerva viitorul în privinţa aceasta nu ştiu.

1.1.3 Marxist Anthropology

Definition – Anthropology is the study of humanity (from the Greek word anthropos, meaning ‘human being’).

The Marxist understanding of what it is to be human can be summarised as the Myth of the New Man – a transformed human being who functions according to the principles established by the Marxist ‘religion’ in order to create a new type of society. This ‘new man’ is in fact nothing other than the re-elaboration in secular and ‘scientific’ terms of a similar Christian project for the transfiguration of the human being. Why is there a need for a ‘new’ man? Obviously, this is because the ‘old’ man is not good enough. Christianity and Marxism agree on this point.

MINISTERUL DE INTERNE
INSPECTORATUL JUD. MEHEDINŢI
Nr. „S”/S.i./00193
din 09.05.1974

Către
UNITATEA MILITARĂ 01050 Tr. SEVERIN
BIROUL DE CONTRAINFORMAŢII

O sursă a organelor noastre ne-a informat că asistând la o discuţie purtată de Sergentul T.R. MĂNĂSTIREANU DĂNUŢ din U.M.01050 Tr. Severin şi MUCEA MIHAELA Str. Decebal nr.24 A, bloc X.11 ap. 1 IAŞI, primul a relatat următoarele:

„A trecut o groază de timp de când nu mai ştiu nimic de tine, ori poşta e de vină ori tu nu ai mai comunicat nimic. Aşa este la sfârşit, te uită toată lumea. Dar gata cu plângerile că doar nu sunt copil…

1.1.2  Marxist Opposition to Religion

Marx wrote: ‘Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions’.

There is much focus on action these days.  Action to stop climate change.  To end poverty.  To reach the world for God.  To win this or that.  To ensure my children succeed.  The primary question and task of action is “What must I do?”

Something more must be said.  Life is more than this.  I am not sure I can express it, but I must try.

MINISTERUL DE INTERNE
INSPECTORATUL JUDEŢEAN TULCEA
- Securitate -
Nr.”S”/0031628 din 09.04.1974

Către,
MINISTERUL DE INTERNE
UNITATEA MILITARĂ 01068/T VÎNJU MARE
Ofiţerul de contrainformaţii

O sursă a unităţii noastre ne-a informat că numitul Cap. T.R. MĂNĂSTIREANU DĂNUŢ U.M. 01068/T Vînju-Mare jud. Mehedinţi (student la o facultate din Iaşi) i-a relatat numitului XXXX [Gacea Aurel] Tulcea că:

„Într-adevăr, după o lungă aşteptare, care de ce să nu mărturisesc, m-a cam îngrijorat, am primit în sfârşit scrisoarea ta. Îţi mulţumesc pentru ea.

1.1.1 Marxism as Secular Religion

Feuerbach, the German philosopher who, together with Hegel, was the most significant influence on Marx’s thought, wrote in 1842: ‘We must become religious again. Politics must become our religion’.

Marx himself wrote to his devotees in obviously religious terms, borrowed from the Judeo-Christian tradition: ‘If you want to become one and whole, to be born again in harmony, you must first destroy the environment which makes you a divided being, alienated from yourself’.

MINISTERUL DE INTERNE
INSP. JUD. IAŞI – SECURITATE
Nr.00113346 din 16.03.1974

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Comentarii mistico-religioase din oraşul Iaşi

XXXX din Iaşi, XXXX a afirmat:

„…Am adunare mare şi frumoasă. Vin fraţi de la Ploieşti, de la Bacău, Braşov, Mediaş. Domnul meu să-i lumineze calea XXXX să-l cunoască pe Dumnezeu, să vadă ce putere mare are. De l-ai cunoaşte şi tu ca mine l-ai preamări cu mine în cor…”

MUCEA MIHAELA baptistă din Iaşi, str. Decebal nr.24 A, a afirmat:

Dr. Richard Beck s Chair of the Department of Psychology of Abilene Christian University.

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The Russian Bolshevik Revolution in the year 1917 marked the beginning of one of the darkest chapters in the history of humanity. In the more than seventy years following its achievement of state power, communism claimed the lives of millions and millions of victims all over the world. Now, fifteen years after the demise of the system in the Soviet Union following its collapse in most communist countries in 1989, the counter is still running, as a small number of countries continue along the bloody Marxist path.

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