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With another surge in gun violence in Philadelphia, local police, government leaders and others\nare now calling for residents to turn in their firearms in order to save lives. Here\nA man was seriously injured when a violent crowd of Portland protesters brutally assaulted\nhim after he crashed his truck in the downtown area. here\nCHAPTER 5 \u201cWE DO NOT BELIEVE IN GOD\u201d LENIN\u2019S NECROPHILIA\n\u201cCommunism begins where atheism begins,\u201d declared Marx.253 In the\nCommunist Manifesto, he and Engels remarked, \u201cCommunism abolishes\neternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality.\u201d254 The apostles\nof Marx and Engels took that to heart. In communist Russia, the\nBolsheviks in particular picked up the spear. \u201cA fight to the death must\nbe declared upon religion,\u201d asserted Nikolai Bukharin, founding editor of\nPravda and one of Lenin\u2019s and Stalin\u2019s leading lieutenants, adding\ncounsel to \u201ctake on religion at the tip of the bayonet.\u201d255 Bukharin\nspoke for the Bolsheviks: \u201cReligion and communism are incompatible,\nboth theoretically and practically. \u2026 Communism is incompatible with\nreligious faith.\u201d He also spoke for Marx: \u201c\u2018Religion is the opium of the\npeople,\u2019 said Karl Marx. It is the task of the Communist Party to make this\ntruth comprehensible to the widest possible circles of the laboring\nmasses.\u201d256 The Bolsheviks would do just that. Communists worldwide\nwould do just that. Such was the atheist legacy bequeathed by Marx. One\nof the most brutally restricted rights by communist governments was,\nand remains, the freedom to worship, which communists always and\neverywhere have attacked with a wild fervor and devotion. In a sense, it \nLIVE NOTES FOR THE RAGGED EDGE RADIO . COM by Russ Dizdar 3\nis strange that atheistic communists felt so mortally threatened by their\npeople believing in something they insisted did not exist. Yet,\ncommunists not only cared about that worship but became utterly\nobsessed with stopping it. Belief in God stood in the way of the\ntotalitarian desire to transform human nature. God was a competitor to\ncommunist control of the body, mind, and spirit of man that Marx and\nLenin wanted to redefine in their own image. In other words, the\ncommunists rightly recognized that belief in God was the chief\nimpediment to the imposition of their atheist creed. \u201cThat Religion of\nTheirs\u201d\nKengor, Paul. The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of\nDeath, Deception, and Infiltration . TAN Books. Kindle Edition