There's no published English language translation of the book above but an English language .pdf of it can be found on line if you dig a bit. The crowd who think their totalitarian utopia would be any different need to read it and never will but a lot of the people who know how bad Communism was need to read it as well to see exactly how the machine went through a series of target groups in order to get the people most likely to resist first.
It wasn't the loudmouths who put them in power who were targeted first, it was Christians who more often than not weren't even politically activist. You can see that approach starting to take shape in the US but no one minds, it's all about sticking to the secular standards of the Constitution, right? It's not anything to worry about, just keep snoozing and looking at the squeaky wheels and hoping they get theirs soon.
Oh, and don't forget to fight amongst yourselves, Christians, because believing that Salvation is through Christ and there's no other path to Salvation isn't enough. There's no shortage of other things to fight one another over so fiddle while Rome burns, what difference does it make?
Looking at the US right now strengthens my belief that most people will take the mark of the beast without even realizing it because they'll already be under the strong delusion the Bible speaks of. A delusion that will divorce the mark of the beast from the reality it represents and present it as just another little brick in the yellow brick road that leads to the good, democratic, peaceful, society we all want.
Oh, but Trump’s election put much of that inevitable road into pitch black darkness to a screeching halt. It’s going to take a LOT of time to steer the ship a new direction, but it’s happening. Even just seeing the House of Cards fall in Hollywood (no pun intended) is already a sign of God at work!
It’s important, Rashputin not to give into despair or worse: to overestimate the enemy! (Like some overestimate Putin’s power in Russia.)
Developments in the past few weeks alone:
* Donna Brazile added one more final nail to the Clinton Machine political coffin with her revelations.
* The GOP needs to clean house too as painful as it is, including among the supposed MAGA crowd. Bad apples be gone!
Rebekkah Heinrichs offers lovely perspective:
“Christianity has a long legacy of great minds who toiled to understand the Holy Scriptures and Christian orthodoxy and applied them in ways to navigate matters of politics and international relations. However, today there is great confusion, partly due to the lack of proper catechesis, which works as a bulwark against bad doctrine and progressivism in general. But during this age of Trump-championed American nationalism, we have seen a strange reaction from Christian leaders.”
“God has given Americans an enormous gift in the United States of America. Our nation was founded by men and women who recognized that God gives human beings rights, that the government is only here to protect those rights—life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness—and that this experiment of self-government relies not on the whims of thugs but the rule of law.
Our history is one we can be proud of. The people with power looked upon their enslaved brethren and ended the scourge of slavery, though it was and is a global institution, always has been, and persists in faraway lands even today.
Or, as famed brilliant economist Thomas Sowell said: “While slavery was common to all civilizations, as well as to peoples considered uncivilized, only one civilization developed a moral revulsion against it.” That is, Western civilization. And that Americans fought a bloody civil war to end it.
Our country is one in which we all, including men who first held power, looked upon American women with dignity and respect, image-bearers of God, equal in value and in dignity and worth. To this day, we encourage and extol the virtues and unique contributions of American women and are committed that they—we—have equal protection under the law.
And, perhaps most precious to the Christian, our nation is committed to ensuring that, as Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently said, the government does not come between God and man.
All of these blessed, remarkable phenomena exist because of generations of American Christians’ heroic intellectual heavy-lifting, heartfelt convictions, physical work, and real blood and toil sacrifice.
We have much to be thankful for as American Christians.
Now this independent, spirited president and his administration have come at a time when these concepts are being rediscovered and debated. What is America? How do we preserve her culturally? How do we rediscover, appreciate, and protect her?”