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04/24/2009: ""Christ was the first communist" says Communist Party leader in Russia"

RT: For me you are a person full of striking contradictions - a religious communist.

GZ: Sasha, you have a wrong idea about communism. The first communist ever was Jesus Christ. He was the first person on the planet to say - care for the poor, the orphans, and the suffering. I've studied all the religions of the world. There are some who can just talk about the Bible, but I actually know the Bible very well. If you read the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus Christ, and the Moral Code of the Builder of Communism - they are identical. And the main communist slogan is the same as in Paul's epistle to the Thessalonians: he, who doesn't work, shall not eat. I also know the Quaran very well. I've studied Hinduism, Baptism and going all the way back to mono-worshippers of Zoroaster - I know all the religious movements of the world. And suddenly I've realized that almost all of them have the same main idea. Which is - love your neighbor as yourself. The human race realized even back then. Otherwise - we'll perish. You'll see that the 21st century starts with a new impetus to realize this idea. Otherwise, the space ship called the Earth is doomed.

[Quoting Ben Klassen: Both communism and Christianity preach against materialism. Communism designates those productive and creative forces of our society to which we owe in such large part the benefits of a productive White civilization, as "bourgeois." It then lashes out with unparalleled fury at the bourgeois and tells us over and over again that they must be destroyed. Instead of giving credit where credit is due, it slanders and vilifies these constructive and productive elements, namely the bourgeois or the capitalists, as the ultimate in evil.

Christianity tells us basically the same thing. It tells us that it will be more difficult for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get to heaven. It tells us that we should "sell all thou hast and give it to the poor," an insidious piece of advice that, if followed, would make us all a pack of roving bums and beggars. It would most surely cause the breakdown of our society. Christianity further tells us "lay not up treasures on earth, but lay up treasures in heaven." ]

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