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▉ MASS KILLINGS UNDER COMMUNISM. Wikipedia provides the following statistics:
▐ 110 million ‘people. '110 million people foreign & domestic, killed by communist democide’ from 1900-1987 [‘Death by Government’ by R.J. Rummel, R.J., 1994].
▐ 148 million (38 million famine deaths) ‘148 (38 million famine deaths) by communist democide between 1900-1999’ [‘The Great Chinese Famine’, Jung Chang & Jon Halliday].
▐ 100 million. 100 million, ‘rough approximation’ (‘between 85-100 million’) [‘Black Book of Communism’, Stephane Cour-tois, 1999).
▐ 21-70 million. 21-70 million ‘non-combatants in People’s Republic of China & Cambodia’ [Benjamin Valentino, 2005].
▐ 60 million. 60 million, ‘perhaps tens of millions more’ [‘Red Holocaust’, Steven Rosefielde, 2010].
▐ 70 million. 70 million ‘from execution, labor camps, famine, ethnic cleansing and desperate flight in leaky boats’, not counting those killed in wars [Matthew White, 2011].
▐ 100 million. ‘Overall range from 42 870 000 to 161 990 000 with 100 million the most commonly cited figure’ [Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, 2016].
▐‘65 million. At least 65 million between 1917 and 2017’ . [Prof. Kotkin, ‘The Wall Street Journal’, 2017]. [Wikipedia, ‘Mass Killings Under Communism’. Online 2020].
▉ SAY 'NO!' TO COMMUNISM1. We say “No!” to communism when we say “Yes!” to the GOSPEL and JESUS CHRIST. Why? Bear in mind that Communism is atheistic by design, and thus incompatible with the Bible and the Gospel. Writes Wikipedia:
“Throughout the history of the Soviet Union (1917–1991), there were periods when Soviet authorities brutally suppressed and persecuted various forms of Christianity to different extents depending on State interests.
1] Soviet Marxist-Leninist policy consistently advocated the control, suppression, and ultimately, the elimination of religious beliefs, and it actively encouraged the propagation of Marxist-Leninist atheism in the Soviet Union … The Communist Party destroyed churches, synagogues and mosques, ridiculed harassed, incarcerated and executed religious leaders, flooded the schools and media with anti-religious teachings, and introduced a belief system ‘scientific atheism’,"with its own rituals, promises and proselytizers.”
[Wikipedia, ‘Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union’. Online 2020].
▉SOCIALISM ALSO INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE BIBLE, THE LAW OF MOSES AND THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
Bear in mind that, while Communism usually will have Atheism as its religion of choice, it usually will have Socialism as its economic model of choice, although there are many varieties and ‘brands’ of Communism and Atheism in the world today.
I am still amazed at how many people, including some Christians, who still believe that the Bible teaches (i) Marx’s Socialism and (ii) Darwin’s Evolutionism, both of which are bereft of all truth and/or merit (or both). Neither Moses, or Jesus Christ nor Paul the Apostle (who wrote an approximate third of the New Testament) ever preached or taught Communism, Socialism or Evolution. Follow any of these creeds and you are following 'strange gods', i.e., 'strange fire'.
The economic model emphasized by the Bible is the Freemarket system of private ownership. See the ‘Ten Commandments’ given to Moses by God (Yahweh) Himself. (“Thou shalt mot covet thy neighbours’ ox, donkey, house or anything that is thy neighbours” etc.).
▉CONCLUSION. We thus say NO to Communism when we reject Atheism, Communism, Evolutionism and Socialism for the imposters that they are and by faith (and not by compulsion at the point of a gun) accept Jesus Christ as LORD and Saviour. [John3:16; Romans6:23]. Jesus Christ has said:
"The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. I [JESUS] have come so that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.” [John10:10-11 MKJV].
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