J. EDGAR HOOVER:"I confess to a real apprehension, so long as Communists are able to secure ministers of the gospel to promote their evil work and espouse a cause that is alien to the religion of Christ and Judaism."EARL BROWDER:"...we Communists do not distinguish between good and bad religions, because we think they are all bad..."This is to tell you what will happen to YOU and YOUR CHURCH if Communism ever takes over the United States of America. The long and the short of it is just...
More DescriptionJ. EDGAR HOOVER:"I confess to a real apprehension, so long as Communists are able to secure ministers of the gospel to promote their evil work and espouse a cause that is alien to the religion of Christ and Judaism."EARL BROWDER:"...we Communists do not distinguish between good and bad religions, because we think they are all bad..."This is to tell you what will happen to YOU and YOUR CHURCH if Communism ever takes over the United States of America. The long and the short of it is just this: You cannot be a Communist and believe in God. You cannot believe in God and have a peaceable life under Communism.In all their plans and actions, the Communists mark down religion as Enemy No. 1. Where they dominate, they attack it head on.Where they do not dominate, they try to deceive and to corrupt from within just as they do in government, in education, in labor unions, and throughout a nation's life in general.The aim and object of Communism is always the same-complete control over the human mind and body, asleep and awake, in sickness and in health, from birth to death. That is why Communism marks religion Enemy No. 1, for religion in some form is always a basic influence in the life and thinking of any people.Communism cannot dominate family life, for example, until it has first fought its way past the influence of religion upon the family.Communism cannot force its own brand of moral code upon a person without first destroying his moral code rooted in religion. Communism cannot make education a weapon in its hands so long as religion is secure in its own right to teach and to educate.Communism cannot dominate unless it has the power to remake the life of the people. It cannot ignore religion and do that. So here, then, is a report on what Communism seeks to do about religion in the U.S.A., as judged by what it has already done elsewhere and has SAID it will do here at the first opportunity.