God? Or gods? Is Marxism our second oldest religion?

Whittaker Chambers was a 20th Century writer-editor. As a Communist Party member and later Soviet spy, Chambers famously defected to work at then-conservative TIME Magazine (1939–1948). Chambers’ next move exposed his one-time comrade Alger Hiss, who as both a high-ranking State Department official and head of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, had hidden his own Communist-agent past.

Chambers’ testimony, along with “Pumpkin papers” evidence he and Congressman Richard Nixon surfaced, led to Hiss’s perjury conviction in the 1949 “trial of the century” (story told in Chambers’ best-selling 1952 memoir, Witness).


 “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” — Genesis 3:5


Chambers described Cultural Marxism as our second oldest religion (“War on the West,” FOX News 5/1/22). When the serpent whispers to Eve, “Ye shall be as gods,”  the snake is offering humans the divine power to separate good from evil, making humans gods. We choose either to follow (imperfectly) faith in God, or we reach for the god-like power Cultural Marxism grants.

Today’s Cultural Marxists, says the American Enterprise Institute’s Max Eden (see FOX News above), are pushing Critical Race Theory (CRT) under less-controversial headings such as “Cultural Competence” or “Culturally Responsive Education.”

CRT comes down to the syllogism:

Everything in (Christian-based) traditional culture is white.
Everything that is white is bad.
Therefore, traditional culture is bad, and the world is open to new culture.

“Cultural Competence” is the opposite of color blindness.

“Culturally Responsive Education” is another phrase for race-based instruction.

In the conflict between faith in God and Cultural Marxism (with its Woke human gods), Eden argues indignation is more powerful than gratitude. This is terrible. Think how much better we’d be, if gratitude were more powerful than indignation!

But, as Eden says,

To acknowledge that gratitude is proper is to acknowledge that there are others greater than us, which is a very difficult thing to acknowledge if you start from an ideology that says I and others who think like me have the right to reshape the world according to our ideas and our will.

 


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