Communism vs. Christianity

American Thinker ^ | 10 Oct, 2026 | Fay Voshell

[MtnClimber]

Who can doubt that wherever communism has risen, war follows?

The carnage it has caused in this and the last century is beyond dispute. The staggering numbers of people executed, imprisoned, poisoned, starved, and exiled to gulags are almost beyond belief, as the authors of The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression have meticulously documented. The authors are all European. All were and are deeply acquainted with communist ideology and its fruits. One, Stephane Courtois, was a committed Maoist during the 1960s.

The book documents the death toll: 25 million in the former Soviet Union, 65 million in China, 1.7 million in Cambodia. Wherever Communism took root, it immediately led to criminality, terrorist tactics, and suppression of opposition.

But what does communism war against?

The answer to that question is best answered by former true believers who assiduously worked to advance Communism, but who eventually rejected Communism and exposed it for the horrors it produces within any society in which it roots itself.

In America, that question was answered by Whittaker Chambers.

For Chambers, who was a member of the American Communist underground for 13 years and who decisively rejected communist ideology by 1938, the struggles of the West were a war between two irreconcilable faiths -- Communism and Christianity. He wrote:

“The 20th century… is the first century since life began when a decisive part of the most articulate section of mankind has not merely ceased to believe in God, but has deliberately rejected God… The most conspicuously menacing form of the rejection is Communism.”

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

[MtnClimber]

deliberately rejected God… The most conspicuously menacing form of the rejection is Communism.”

[Nateman]

And then you have Islam which uses an evil God for its colonization of the world.

[RetiredArmy]

Their “god” is NOT GOD. Don’t capitalize their false, pagan, little “g” god.

[MtnClimber]

Allah - The master of deception.

Lucifer - The father of lies.

[Nateman]

There is no shortage of people claiming to speak for God. One of the worst sins is doing evil in the name of God . Do you have a theory as to why God has allowed Islam to taint His name for centuries?

[SisterK]

with communism, the government is the highest authority
with Christianity, the Creator God is the highest authority

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Interesting. The ultimate terrorist collective is Islam. They have murdered more humans than all of the other collectives combined. Their base camps are in every “communist” country and every Christian country. They continue to murder humans every day around the world. They will continue to murder every day into the future. They are not receding. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, etc., came and went. The murdering MoFos are still here. Billions of the jihadis carry on for the cause. Their manifesto instructs all on how to become “leaders”. When one Mo falls another MoFo steps up. All civilizations should get together to eliminate this collective.

[hal ogen]

moozlums are a clever lot. Do not be deceived.

[arthurus]

Islam is a third great forceand seems to be ascendant now.

[OldCountryBoy]

The last paragraph is a great summary:

“Christian thought leaders can begin by recognizing what Chambers, immersed as he once was in the Communist faith, eventually discerned: “There are two great camps of men — those who reject and those who worship God.””

Christian faith runs counter to “communist faith,” or Islamic faith.

Is there a more stark comparison? Christ’s life and teaching are so different than communism or islam. That is why these other pseudo-faiths need to crush Christianity to survive.