I just found this quote today:
“[Communism] is, in fact, man’s second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: ‘Ye shall be as gods.’ It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision.
Other ages have had great visions. They have always been different versions of the same vision: the vision of God and man’s relationship to God. The Communists vision is the vision of Man without God. It is the vision of man’s mind displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world.”
- Whittaker Chambers, Witness, p. 9.
What an amazing insight. I shall ponder it much, and irritate many with it.