by Doug Wilson from Blog and Mablog – Rats in our Soul

Editor’s note: Doug really, really, REALLY hates the idea of Communism and he makes it clear that he considers it ‘Unchristian’. But, has he not realized that there is a lot about the early church that has similarities to some of the foundational ideas of ideology of societies like Communism. Doug is trying to add something to the theology of Christianity that does not belong. A perfect example of what extra Biblical thinking looks like, if you can even call it thinking.

I guess it’s better than claiming that your church is flooded in a nature disaster just to avoid having ‘the wrong people’ sheltered in your church, then when it’s found to be a lie you claiming that you didn’t open the church because you weren’t asked. This going on in Houston post-hurricane where plenty other churches, synagogues and mosques opened up their facilities to house those made homeless by the flooding without being asked.

Many of these so-called Super-Christians behave like they’ve never read or understood the words of Jesus. All you have to do is to look at the news and stroll over to blogs like Lori Alexander’s to see how far away they are from the words of Jesus.

I commented to some friends that perhaps we need to put hatred of communism into the Apostles’ Creed.

*snipped out Doug’s rantings about Ukrainian museums and statues.*

In between those two museums, we drove through Kiev and saw many square miles of Soviet-era apartment blocks, mud-fence ugly, and a transparent architectural attempt to provide people with a place that would keep the rain off, and that would simultaneously spit at God in Heaven.

The historian Charles Beard once said, apropos of American imperial achievements, that empires are not built in “fits of absent-mindedness.” Whatever his point about our imperialism was, the observation most certainly applies to the devastations(sic) that communism has wrought. Such things are not accomplished in fits of absent-mindedness. There is a plain intention that suffuses the whole enterprise. This level of evil is done on purpose. It is not some unfortunate by-product.

And so, that being the case, let us discuss why it is that socialist thinking is now once again gaining ground, growing and flourishing in the West. How is it that something that has proven to be so disastrous, so many times, can successfully gain a hearing with anybody? Why is collectivism attractive—why isn’t the allure of socialists something akin to the allure of those who want to bring back the bubonic plague?

And of course, a society that is as wicked as ours is—given over the lusts of promiscuity and sodomy, abandoned to the bloodlust(sic) of abortion, and entirely debauched by the pride of Mammon—and one which is simultaneously wealthy beyond the dreams of Nebuchadnezzar, is a society that will necessarily be envy-ridden. And the more prosperity there is, the more envy there will be. The way out is repentance, not GDP growth.

So the only defense of free markets has to be more than the economic success of free markets. Given the reality of envy as a spiritual cancer, the success of free markets is the reason they are first hated, then pillaged, then abandoned. The success of free markets is not their shield and buckler—only Christ can be their shield and buckler. And that is because only the death of Christ can be the death of envy.

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