Religion Under Communism

"Responsible Communists have made it clear that religious freedom will be given and written into the new constitution. There will also be freedom to criticize and attack religion.

Contact with young Christians among students results in astonishing discoveries of dissatisfaction with the churches. Some are torn between Communism on the one hand, and religious escapism on the other. Christianity as represented by the churches appears often to be a twisted thing, a thing connected with foreign imperialism, bourgeois ideo-syncracles, and the corrupt and dying status quo; a thing that is an opiate of the people, an escape from reality, a high-sounding idealism that is nowhere effective, a source of irresponsible liberalism, atomic individualism, spineless sentimentalism, defeatism in regard to this world and man's capacity in transforming it for his own good—in short an anti-revolutionary dead log to be cleared away. No wonder so many young Christians go over to the Communists!"