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This seems more like an insistence on equating bad things with Christianity. If you take them at their word, Communists were anti-Christian and worked to eradic
by robertlagrant 2y ago
This seems more like an insistence on equating bad things with Christianity. If you take them at their word, Communists were anti-Christian and worked to eradicate Christianity. Yes they believed in something else, but that thing was maybe the state, or the cause of their class.
- adrian_b 2y agoMost Christian variants have worked to eradicate all the other Christian variants. Communists have just acted vs. Christians in the same way as Christians vs. different kinds of Christians, and for the same reasons, i.e. in order to suppress anyone who swears allegiance to different authorities. When discussing communists you cannot "take them at their word", because Communists have always used a special language where a very large number of words have very different meanings than their traditional meanings, for propagandistic purposes. Moreover, even when some phrases should mean the same thing as in normal language, it is more likely than not that they are just lies. Reading any ancient publication from the former communists states requires experience with communist propaganda to understand which sentences are true and which are false.
- robertlagrant 2y agoThis does seem like some large category errors, though. Humans have tried to eradicate other human groups. The Romans fed Christians to the lions; does that make the Romans basically Christians as well? Or the Skeleton Army[0] in 19th Century Britain? Did they turn out to be Christians as well? As I say, you're just forcing one thing, when all sorts of people have tried to kill Christians through the ages. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton_Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton_Army