Christianity and Communism

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Mind you, may not be popular to say, but the Early Christians were a lot like the Communists of the 20th Century. The reason Romans hated Christians was not because Christians were more tolerant than Romans, but rather because Christians were less tolerant, and more authoritarian, than the Empire. And once the Christians came into power, the Roman Empire was filled with religious intolerance for the old Pagan beliefs (or, I should say, Polytheist beliefs).

And though they destroyed the original culture and heritage of Roman Civilization, they soon set up new Traditions in their place. The Bolsheviks, in their turn, endeavored to do to the Christians what the Christians themselves did to the Traditional religion of Roman Times. I suppose, the Bolsheviks believed in one less god than the Christians did. And, indeed, the Christians were at least as responsible for the destruction of Rome as the Northern barbarians could even dream. You see, the Christians destroyed The Roman Empire from within.

Bertrand Russel has a very good schematic of the parallels between concepts in Christianity and concepts in Communism. And, of course, it is very interesting to look at.

This could, of course, offer a true explanation of that strange paradox: though Communism and Fascism are on opposite ends of the Political Spectrum, both do the same horrid things. After all, Hitler was born into that most infamous denomination of Christianity, namely Roman Catholicism. So too were Heinrich Himmler and other top National Socialist figures in Germany at the time.

I find it very interesting how many empires needed an ideology/ Religion to hold them together.