{"id":793,"date":"2008-02-20T13:56:07","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T18:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/20\/communists-everywhere.html"},"modified":"2015-12-28T12:09:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T18:09:10","slug":"communists-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/communists-everywhere.html","title":{"rendered":"Communists everywhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have people with Communist ideas leading the Democratic Party which should change its name to the socialist party. Now we have these emerging leaders in Christianity spouting Communism and we also have Word Churches, some Pentecostals and the World Counsel of Churches looking to bring in a Christian utopia based on Communist principles. So Communism is not dead it has just shape shifted into the American mainstream. Mao would be so proud. He is taking America and is destroying Christianity without firing a shot.<\/p>\n<p>It is unbelievable how far Americans and Christians have strayed from their ideals in the last fifty years. Fifty years ago we thought America might fall to the Commies by military conquest. Today we see it is falling though the ignorance, apathy and gullibility of people who have left the truths of the Bible to believe in a socialist paradise on earth that was fed to them by Communist brain washers who often call themselves emergent Christian Progressives.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have just finished reading Tony Campolo\u2019s book Letters to a Young Evangelical. Published<br \/>\nby Basic Books and copyrighted by Campolo in 2006, this work gives the<br \/>\nreader an amazing look into the mind and heart of a radical sociologist<br \/>\non a mission\u2014to establish the Kingdom of God on earth. The<br \/>\ncannon fodder for establishing this Kingdom is the poor, the wretched,<br \/>\nthe oppressed, the naked, the downtrodden, and the proletariat. The chief tool to bring about this Kingdom is \u201cprogressive politics\u201d (3). Its Mein Kampf is Jim Wallis\u2019 God\u2019s Politics. Indeed, Jim Wallis is featured on the jacket of Campolo&#8217;s book with this statement: \u201cTony Campolo is my favorite evangelist.\u201dCampolo&#8217;s volume is a veritable love-fest among three leftwing<br \/>\nEvangelicals\u2014Campolo and his two partners in crime (the crime being<br \/>\ndeception): Ron Sider (Evangelicals for Social Action) and Jim Wallis (Sojourners magazine), whom he calls his &#8220;best of friends&#8221; throughout the book. All<br \/>\nthree subscribe to the same party line\u2014liberal, leftwing, allegedly<br \/>\nprogressive, ideas that impact social, economic and political action. \u201cI<br \/>\nbelieve,\u201d says Campolo, \u201cthat Christians should engage in efforts to<br \/>\nchange the political and economic structures of our society because<br \/>\nthese structures do not adequately address the needs of the poor and<br \/>\noppressed\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Campolo conveniently forgets to mention, or else does not know for<br \/>\nhimself, that the baggage he asks these two young, na\u00efve evangelicals<br \/>\nto carry with them in bringing about the Kingdom is simply a plethora<br \/>\nof failed radical ideas and agendas that make impossible any and every<br \/>\neffort to establish that Kingdom&#8211; unless, of course, the Kingdom of<br \/>\nGod is a socialistic &#8220;paradise&#8221; something on the order of a Stalinist<br \/>\nfarming collective or Moscow under Brezhnev. Those horrors, and not Campolo&#8217;s airy utopian dreams, are what his ideas repeatedly yield, and to where they inevitably lead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20131026104247\/http:\/\/www.worldviewweekend.com\/worldview-times\/article.php?articleid=1597\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have people with Communist ideas leading the Democratic Party which should change its name to the socialist party. Now we have these emerging leaders in Christianity spouting Communism and we also have Word Churches, some Pentecostals and the World Counsel of Churches looking to bring in a Christian utopia based on Communist principles. 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