| Christianity |
Marxism |
| Acts 4:32 - 5:11: "All the
believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that
any of their possessions was their own, but they shared
everything they had. ...And God’s grace was so powerfully at
work in them all that there were no needy persons among
them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses
sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at
the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had
need. Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles’ feet. Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? (...)” When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened.(...) About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. Peter asked her, “Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?” “Yes,” she said, “that is the price.” Peter said to her, “How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. |
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| Homosexuality
In Classical Antiquity : In 342 (Codex
Theodosianus, 9, 7, 3,) the first law was enacted in
Milan regarding passive homosexuals. Harsher penalties
were introduced by Theodosius I in a law addressed to the
prefect of Rome in 390, with execution by burning (...).
This law was inserted in the Theodosian Code of
438 (9, 7, 6), but substantially modified and with a wider
scope. The new compilation condemned to burning all
passive homosexuals without distinction. With the Emperor
Justinian the legislation was broadened; every kind of
homosexuality was repeatedly condemned with the death
penalty". From Wikipedia: "Justinian's law code then served as the basis for most European countries' laws against homosexuals for the next 1400 years. Homosexual behavior, called sodomy, was considered a capital crime, and thousands of homosexual men were executed across Europe during waves of persecution in these centuries." |
From Wikipedia: "Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels both to some level expressed homophobia in their public and private writings " "In the 1930s under Joseph Stalin, homosexuality and abortion were recriminalised in the nation. Article 121 explicitly criminalised male same-sex intercourse and with five years of hard prison labor as a penalty(...) Homosexuals were sometimes denied membership or expelled from communist parties across the globe during the 20th Century, as most communist parties followed the social precedents set by the USSR. Today, however, nearly all communist parties accept homosexuals and support the LGBT rights movement. Homosexuality was decriminalized in China in 1997 and was removed as a mental illness in 2002" |
| God not
tolerating any heresy nor anybody committing any "adultery
in his heart" (Matthew 5:28) nor committing any other
horrible crime (such as, for example, the crime to consider
"entering a religious community of a stricter observance"
against His will, according to Faustina 18, and many more examples of
similar crimes are mentioned in the rest of her diary, such
as (71) the crime of offering someone flowers because of a
"subtle attachment" for this person) - any unrepentful
sinner will go to hell |
The KGB
checking that nobody keeps any property private nor has any
thoughts or words against communism - anyone breaking those
rules will go to gulag |
| Theodosius
I started large-scale religious persecution aimed at
eradication of all non-christian religions and destruction
of all temples. This is a Christian innovation (except
it was inspired by Judaism, of course). Indeed, before that,
the Roman empire only made limited persecutions of the
Christians, with no purpose to exterminate them;these were
justified by the threat posed by Christianity to the Roman
society, fear that turned out to be fully justified. (Thus
the apologetic writings on "martyrs", as if Christians were
specially targetted, is exaggerated: as if even being
"persecuted" ever was an evidence of mental sanity or of
divine infallibility ; but even if it was, it would rather
plead for the Pagagn religions and antic Roman culture
instead; anyway for the defense of freedoms and
civilization, I do think that in retrospective the
extermination of the minority of Christians would have been
fully justified for the sake of the larger culture and
civilization of that time; or better, just expel them to visit
the Holy Land to check if their Jesus could really have been
there). He ended the Olympic Games, and destroyed much of the rich cultural heritage from Antiquity. He was finally declared Saint by the Church. |
Religions were
oppressed and arts were severly regulated in the Soviet
world. |
| The Church
dumped the economic and intellectual development of Europe,
thus leading to the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the
millenium-long poverty of the Middle Ages, in the following
ways: - The destruction of the culture of Antiquity - The ban on "usury", leading to a collapse of the financial system, that productive investment depended on - Monopolizing knowledge by its control on the educational system, so that nobody can be educated without being Christian and wasting a lot of time with theology. - The negative eugenic effect of sending the intellectual and spiritual elite to monastery, and putting a taboo on love that has the effect of reserving it to unethical, shameless people |
False economic
doctrines prevailed, economic liberties and finance were
banned, so that the economic development stalled, until a
final collapse of the whole system In Cambodia, The Khmer Rouge exterminated the intellectual elite. |
| The Catholic
Church tightly controlled information, banned by its Index
and sometimes condemn to death for heresy, the non-Christian
philosophers and scientists. Since the final Great Schism between Catholics and Orthodox in 1054 when the Pope excommunicated the Patriarch, the Catholic Church maintained the Western Europe, through its control and censorship of information, in ignorance and disdain towards the higher economic and cultural prosperity of the Eastern Roman Empire where the allowance of financial transactions (no ban on usury) and the freedom of expression in non-theological issues allowed for remains of antic intellectual heritage of Antiquity to keep thriving and developing (with its wealth that also had other causes) until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 by Muslim conquerors. While this fall caused Eastern intellectuals to take refuge in Western Europe and contribute to start Renaissance there, usual Western history textbooks still now remain largely unthankful to the now dead Eastern Roman empire for this gift. |
Information was
tightly controlled, dissidents were arrested and the higher
degrees of freedom and prosperity enjoyed in the Western
"capitalist" world were denied for decades in communist
countries. |
| It is wise to be stupid
("humble", "poor in spirit") and do nothing better than
others, only wasteful things (being poor and give the little
useless things that are all what one has for living); Being
efficient and claiming to know things better than others is
pride, sin and leads to hell. There is nothing to understand
about life, as it would be so horribly unfair to consider
any idea that something may be worth understanding that not
all people can understand. The only thing that matters is to
believe God's word without question. Which God had the
goodness to design as stupid in order to give every stupid
person the chance to follow it. Then ifever intelligent ones
don't accept it, it will be their fault: it's up to them to
become stupid for God's love, so that they have no excuse to
refuse. |
It is democratic, good and
brotherly to be a stupid worker that proved unable to do any
work worth a decent salary, and to propagate stupid
demagogic propaganda supporting to put the stupidity of the
large masses to power. It is criminal to belong to any
leading elite in a position to work more productively and
manage production or anything better than others. There is
nothing to understand about economics, but that any
inequality of wealth is injust and should be abolished. |
| Being or trying to be rich
leads to hell |
Being rich or trying to be
rich is criminal and deserves to be sent to gulag |
| All humans are equally able
to partially understand essential truths, and equally unable
to fully do it. Those who claim they "can't" find faith, are
just pretending. Those who claim to understand something
beyond the thoughts of theologians and to refute them, are
also just pretending. Any so-called "truth" outside the
Bible is made up belief with no value and an act of
rebellion of man against God. It cannot genuinely exist
because human reason has limits and cannot find God, and
these limits are uniform between all humans. Therefore, the
fact theologians could not understand anything beyond the
strict acceptance of Christian theology, proves this is not
possible. |
All humans are equal in
nature and intelligence. Any appearence of a difference
between social classes and jobs qualifications, is a mere
social construction where the dominating class gave itself
the priviledge of a better education, or just a pretention
and an usurpation by possessing wealth and power positions. |
| Most Christian apologists
reject logical positivism. And so many claims of
Christianity are actually unfalsifiable, such as divine
promises, God "answering" prayers by yes or no,
accusations that deconverts "never were true Christians",
and even, the belief in the existence of a proper Christian
rational defense which is made unfalsifiable by every
Christian blindly dismissing any skeptic arguments by
refusing to hear them and requesting the skeptics to go talk
instead to someone else, pastor, preacher or famous
apologist, supposed expert having all the arguments, but who
are actually professionally dumb people... |
As explained by Popper,
Marxism fails to be a scientific theory because it is not
falsifiable. |