[nickcarraway]

Communism is a heresy of Christianity.

[sparklite2]

What was it called? Liberation theology?

“It stressed both heightened awareness of the “sinful” socioeconomic structures that caused social inequities “

That would be free markets, boys and girls.

[Wallace T.]

More like an apostasy than heresy. Karl Marx was raised as a Lutheran, but rejected religion in his teenage years. Stalin was a former Orthodox seminary student who became an atheist. Friedrich Engels rejected his parents’ Protestant Pietist religion during his youth. Others, like Lenin and Trotsky, were reared in more or less secular households where one or both parents were indifferent to religion.

[alloysteel]

Communism is theology without a deity to back it up. All things are to be taken on faith, and the great promises of a heaven shall be fulfilled here on earth. But if you do not work hard and strive to fill the niche set for you, it becomes a purgatory or even an unshirted hell.

“Justice” without mercy or appeal.

But so far as comparing Communism to any “religion”, Marxism more nearly resembles the ideology promoted in the Koran, and lacks only the deity to act as a primary “enforcer” of the discipline necessary to keep any form of socialism going.

[JohnyBoy]

>Communism is a heresy of Christianity.

Nope. Communism is a heresy of Judaism, which is why it was so popular with jews and was created Karl Marx who was Jewish. Progressivism is a heresy of Christianity which is why it’s so popular with liberal Christians.