During the Cold War, many horrible things took place. Bad world views were being embraced by many. Communism was trying to creep in and take over the world. You see, Communism believes that a peaceful, idealistic world can be brought about by human beings who want to cohere to this doctrine. Yet, this doctrine is enslaving for it takes away the freedom of the people to think for themselves and make their own decisions. But at the root of this thinking is that man is the most powerful being around and that we get to call the shots. In Communism, God is not acknowledged. In fact, if you acknowledge God, you will be punished. Ironically, many of the former Communistic leaders believed in the supernatural, and dealt with the powers of the occult. Yet they deny God's existence. Could it be simply that they do not want anyone to rule over them? If God is true, they would have to acknowledge His being and submit to His authority. That is where the rubber meets the road for them, I believe. That is the crux of why they are doing what they believe in. God is the government, and people submit to that, period. When they are at the top, guess what? You will find yourself having to worship them. And that is the goal of Communism, my friend.
With that said, here is part of an article from www.history.com of a book that was published in 1950 called, The God That Failed. It is compiled by different authors, whose thinking was shaped by communistic ideologies.
The God That Failed, a collection of essays by six writers and intellectuals who either joined or sympathized with the communist cause before renouncing the ideology, is published by Harpers.
The book provided interesting insight into why communism originally appealed to, and then disappointed, so many adherents in the United States and Europe, particularly during the 1920s and 1930s. The essays also showed that many individuals of good conscience and intentions desperately hoped that communism would bring order, justice, and peace to a world they worried was on the brink of disaster.
The six men who contributed to the book were all writers or journalists. Two were American (Louis Fischer and the African-American novelist Richard Wright); the rest were from Europe (Andre Gide from France, Arthur Koestler and Stephen Spender from England, and Ignazio Silone from Italy). Of these, Spender, Wright, Koestler, and Silone had been members of the Communist Party for varying lengths of time. Gide and Fischer, though they sympathized with the communist ideology, never formally joined the party. Each man, in his turn, eventually turned against communist ideology.
According to the volume's editor, British politician and essayist Richard Crossman, the very fact that these intelligent and compassionate individuals were drawn to communism was "an indictment of the American way of life," and evidence of "a dreadful deficiency in European democracy." All of the writers--particularly during the 1920s and 1930s, when fascism and totalitarianism were on the march and the Western democracies seemed unable or unwilling to intercede--turned to communism as the hope for a better, more democratic, and more peaceful world. Each man eventually broke with the communist ideology, however. You can read more at: www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-god-that-failed-published
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