Even when Marxism is opposed to religion, including Christianity because it represents to this ideology a form of “traditional values”, actually both movements have shown sharing a common operation: *Both have a core of unprovable beliefs. *Both share egalitarianism and universalism, i.e. a doctrine that want a world without borders, races, nations or ethnic groups. This is catholicism (small c) for the church, and internationalism for socialists. *Both hope for a “future kingdom of justice and freedom”, an Utopia of peace and fraternity among all humankind. (The Augustinian world view: One World State under God). *Both assign great value to community, to “communal life”, to the “communal sharing of goods”. (Acts 2:44, 45; 4:32 and 4:34-37). *Both consider the poor to be victims of injustice. Both first seek to draw attention to the lower strata of society to preach their “message”, and historically, both reached power through the rebellion of the lower classes against the higher classes (class struggle). *Both had institutions checking that nobody has any actions, thoughts or words against the doctrine (The Inquisition and The KGB) - anyone breaking their rules will go to stake or gulag. While religions were oppressed and arts were severly regulated in soviet world, Christians of fourth century started large-scale religious persecution aimed at eradication of all non-christian religions and destruction of all temples. This was a Christian innovation (except it was inspired by Judaism, of course). Indeed, before that, the Roman empire only made limited persecutions of the Christians, (exaggerated by the typical Semitic victimhood) and these were essentially political, not religious, and were justified by the threat posed by Christianity to the Roman society. The Roman Empire always tolerated different religions, but their authorities saw in Christianity a subversive sect of an anti-Roman preaching. Rome simply acted in self-defense against this poisonous anti-Roman threat, with no purpose to exterminate them. Jose Maria Vazquez David Burrero del Castillo Borja López García Cristianismo o comunismo, todo una copia mala de Platón. Aunque siempre tendré que inclinarme por el espíritu antes que por el materialismo.
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