Richard Wurmbrand - Marx & Satan, pp 113-117
Howard Duck
NINE
WHOM WILL WE SERVE?
A Call for Action
This book has been written in an exploratory manner. Christian
thinkers, like other scholars, often succumb to the temptation to
prove preconceived ideas. They do not necessarily present only the
truth as far as they have ascertained it. Sometimes they are prone to
stretch the truth or exaggerate their argumentation in order to prove
their point.
I do not claim to have provided indisputable proof that Marx was a
member of a sect of devil-worshipers, but I believe that there are
sufficient leads to imply this strongly. There are certainly enough
leads to suggest Satanic influence upon his life and teachings, while
conceding that there are gaps in a chain of evidence that would lead
to a definite conclusion in this matter. I have provided the initial
impulse. I pray that others will also continue this important inquiry
into the relationship between Marxism and Satanism.
Meanwhile, how can the church defeat Marxism?
The secular anti-Communist world can use weapons of economic
sanctions, political pressure, military threats, and broad-based
propaganda. The church should certainly support any actions
conscience can endorse in the battle against the enemies of God. But
it also has a weapon of its own.
The Ukrainian Metropolitan of the Catholic Church, Byzantine rite,
Andrew Count Sheptytsky, requested that Rome order prayers of exorcism
against the Communists, whose "regime cannot be explained except by a
massive possession of the Devil."
Jesus did not tell His disciples to complain about demons, but to cast
them out (Matthew 10:8). I believe this can be effectively
accomplished, though this book cannot enter into details about such
prayer.
Readers React
The first editions of this book produced interesting responses. Many
greeted it as a new discovery in the understanding of Marxism and gave
me valuable hints as to where I could find new material.
On the other hand, a Dutch personality dedicated several columns of
his theological magazine to minimizing the importance of the
discovery. "Well," he says, "Marx may have indulged in black magic,
but this does not count for much. All men are sinners, all men have
evil thoughts. Let us not be alarmed at this."
It is true that all men are sinners, but not all are criminals. All
men are sinners, but some are murderers and some are righteous judges
who pass judgment on them.
The crimes of communism are unequaled. What other political system
has killed sixty million men in half a century?[1] Another sixty
million have been killed in Iced China. (Some estimates run much
higher.)
There are degrees of sinfulness and criminality. The enormity of
crime is a measure of the intensity of Satanic influence on the
founder of modern communism. The sins of Marxism, like those of
nazism, surpass the ordinary. They are Satanic indeed.
I have also had letters from Satanists offering an apology for their
religion. One of them writes:
"A defense of Satanism needs only the Bible for documentary evidence.
Think of all the thousands of earthly people, created in God's own
image, mind you, destroyed by fire and brimstone (Sodom and Gomorrah),
a lethal miscellany of plagues, and, to top everything off, the
drowning of the earth's population, except for Noah's family. All of
these devastations brought about by a 'merciful' God/Lord/Jehovah.
What could a merciless god have done?
"But in all the Bible there is no record of even one death being
brought about by Satan! So, let's hear it for Satan!"
This Satanist has not studied the Bible well. Death came into the
world through Satan's deceit, his luring Eve into sin. This Satanist
has also drawn his conclusions too soon. God has not yet finished
with His creation.
Initially every painting is a senseless, often ugly mixture of lines
and dots of many colors. It took da Vinci twenty years to make of
these the beautiful Mona Lisa. God also creates in time. In time He
shapes beings and destroys them to give them a new form. The seed
which has neither beauty nor fragrance dies as seed in order to become
a splendid, perfumed flower. Caterpillars have to die as such in
order to become beautiful butterflies. Men are allowed by God to pass
through, the refining fires of suffering and death. The apotheosis of
creation will be a new heaven and a new earth in which righteousness
will triumph. Then those who have followed Satan will have to suffer
an eternity of regrets.
Jesus endured flogging and crucifixion. But whoever wants to know God
must look beyond the tomb to Jesus' resurrection and ascension. In
contrast, the enemies of Jesus who plotted His death brought their
people and their temple to destruction and lost their own souls.
Our critic wished to comprehend God through reason, which is not the
right instrument for a creature. God cannot be comprehended by the
mind, but only apprehended by a believing heart.
A Jamaican asked if the America that exploits his country is not as
Satanic as Marx. It is not. Americans are sinners, as are all men.
America has a small group of devil-worshipers. But the American
nation as such does not worship the Devil.
Nauka I Religia, the principal atheist magazine of Moscow, contains a
long article written by two philosophers, Belov and Shilkin. They say
that
"Wurmbrand's temperament might be envied by the greatest football
players. His shouting is savage. This fighter calls for a crusade
against socialism, which he calls an offspring of Satan. He was
imprisoned in Romania for distributing religious literature
instigating revolt against the government!" [2]
In this article two things are to be noted. First, I am called a
"devilish pastor" for my book Was Karl Marx a Satanist? though the
authors cannot produce one single fact to refute the documentation
supporting Marx's links with a Satanist sect. Second, the article
congratulates Christian leaders, even anti-Communists, who have taken
a stand against me. They might be adversaries of communism, but as
long as they oppose Wurmbrand, chief enemy of communism, they are
approved by Moscow.
One remarkable letter came from a Nigerian who had been a Marxist
labor union leader for twenty years. My writings helped him to see
that he had been led astray by Satan. Furthermore, he has become a
Christian.
References Chapter 9
1. Op. cit., Solzhenitsyn, Vol. III-IV, p. 10.
2. Nauka 1 Religia (Science and Religion), Moscow, December 1976,
in Russian, Vol. 12, pp. 73-76.
Paul Ilechko
> Christian thinkers
today's oxymoron, for your pleasure.
Howard Duck
"The proud and haughty man, scoffer is his name; He worketh in the
arrogance of pride" (Proverbs 21:24, ASV).
Kater Moggin
> "Think of all the thousands of earthly people, created in God's own
> image, mind you, destroyed by fire and brimstone (Sodom and Gomorrah),
> a lethal miscellany of plagues, and, to top everything off, the
> drowning of the earth's population, except for Noah's family. All of
> these devastations brought about by a 'merciful' God/Lord/Jehovah.
> What could a merciless god have done?
> "But in all the Bible there is no record of even one death being
> brought about by Satan! So, let's hear it for Satan!"
> This Satanist has not studied the Bible well. Death came into the
> world through Satan's deceit, his luring Eve into sin.
Wurmbrand hasn't read Genesis or doesn't care what it says.
Satan isn't mentioned there even once. The Creator evicts
Adam and Eve from the Garden, giving him responsibility for the
evils which then fall on the world.
Cf. Isaiah 45:7, where Yahweh boasts or confesses he's the
creator of evil, and Amos 3:6: "Shall there be evil in a
city, and the LORD hath not done it?" The Creator's evil-doing
is obvious in Genesis, Job, Numbers, etc.
Also notice that the Satan seen in the OT is the Creator's
servant -- not his enemy. In the Book of Job, frex, he does
his work on Yahweh's orders, operating within the limits Yahweh
sets.
Of course Wurmbrand's Satanist is also misinformed. Satan
stands with the Creator behind the deaths of Job's servants
and animals, so the claim he doesn't bring about any killing in
the Bible is false.
> This Satanist
> has also drawn his conclusions too soon. God has not yet finished
> with His creation. Initially every painting is a senseless, often
> ugly mixture of lines and dots of many colors. It took da Vinci
>twenty years to make of these the beautiful Mona Lisa.
False analogy. An almighty god isn't required to struggle
toward his goals.
> The apotheosis of
> creation will be a new heaven and a new earth in which righteousness
> will triumph.
The conspicuously unfulfilled promise of a new heavens and
a new earth is a tacit criticism of the present Creation.
When Yahweh talks about making a new and better cosmos (this is
Isaiah again), he says the world we presently know will be
completely forgotten, quietly admitting that he bungled the job.
Isa. 65:17.
> Jesus endured flogging and crucifixion. But whoever wants to know God
> must look beyond the tomb to Jesus' resurrection and ascension.
Peculiar doctrine, since Jesus claimed to be giving people
knowledge of God _before_ he died.
-- Moggin