Comfy Communism

During the last few weeks, I have been studying communism. I have noticed that during the Cold War, many of the government officials were relatively light on communism. For instance, during World War II, Stalin, the leader of the USSR, insisted that the U.S. and Britain should open up a Northwest front to take the pressure of the war off him. It is pretty easy to see why he would say this. Constantly thinking of his own power, he wanted all of Eastern Europe for Russia. He knew that communism would flourish in these poverty-stricken nations. Churchill, ever wary of Stalin, pleaded with Roosevelt to invade Greece, preventing Russia from having a monopoly. Sadly, Roosevelt, not wanting to disappoint a fellow socialist, decided to invade Northwestern Europe, dooming many people to a life of misery.

What is communism? Well, communism is a long-hoped-for Utopia where the state runs a perfect society. Because man is sinful, Christians know that this will never be possible until Christ returns. Communism is the eventual end of socialism. Webster’s dictionary defines socialism as “Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy.” Even more chilling, the second definition says “The stage in Marxist-Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successively achieved.” After reading the second definition, you might make the connection that the American government strangely matches up with the second definition. The American government is slowly gaining more control over people’s lives. Many laws interfere with the family responsibility of raising up and training their children. Christian’s who homeschool their children are constantly under government pressure. In California, a school was going to hold a seminar on intelligent design of the universe. Yet under legal pressure, was forced to cancel it.


If you do a little bit of studying and reading, you can see that many people are sacrificing their freedom for safety and comfort. When we get rid of our freedom, we give it to the government, which in turn has more control over our lives. As Christians, we need to make sure we do not give up our freedom to worship God in exchange for our own comfort.