A Christian Rebuttal to the Myth of Communal Salvation
🛡 Rooted in C. F. W. Walther’s “Against Communism and Socialism”
“The Word of God alone can make us happy. A man may indeed succeed well in some undertaking, and become overjoyed for a time and feel himself very happy. But alas! it is only for a short time! A Christian, on the other hand, is always happy, even while weeping.”
Thesis:
Communism and socialism are fundamentally incompatible with human nature, Christian teaching, and practical reality. They are based on false premises about equality, justice, and happiness, and ultimately lead to tyranny, destruction, and despair.
The Problem:
Modern man believes all men must be made equal. He mistakes this for justice, and he calls resistance to the idea “hate.” But it is not hate to name a lie. It is love for the truth.
Summary of the Proofs:
Fact 1: Ontological Truth: God created men different.
Fact 2: Moral Truth: Sinful man cannot survive equality without tyranny.
Fact 3: Practical Truth: Communal schemes collapse under the weight of human sloth and envy.
Fact 4: Universal Truth: Only Christ makes man whole.
Fact 5 Historical Truth: Attempts to build Eden without Christ ever end in blood.
I. God Created Inequality on Purpose
“It is a fact that men are not equal.”
No two atoms are the same. No two trees, no two souls. Every man is born with gifts and limits, some seen, some unseen—strength, intellect, courage, restraint. The diversity is real, and it is good.
This variety is not a flaw in the system. It is the system. The very order of creation depends on hierarchy and distinction.
Some are born to teach, others to till. Some are born to lead, others to follow. Some are slow to anger. Others must learn restraint. None are self-sufficient. All are interdependent.
To demand equality in all things is to rage against the very fabric of creation.
II. Communism Cannot Exist Without Tyranny
Every system that denies reality must enforce illusion. If all men are not equal by nature, then they must be made equal by force. This is the lie at the heart of communism.
You may abolish ownership, but you cannot abolish desire.
You may seize the tools, but you cannot seize the heart.
So what happens? Someone must govern. Someone must decide who gets what and why. Someone must punish the selfish, the lazy, the noncompliant. The utopia becomes a prison.
Real-world attempts—Fourier’s Phalansteries, the French Revolution, Stalin’s five-year plans—ended in collapse, if not blood.
III. Happiness Is Not Found in Equality
Communism fails not only because it is unnatural, but because it misunderstands man. Man is not made happy by things. He is made happy by peace.
Give a man gold and he will want silver too. Give him ten loaves, and he will still glance at his neighbor’s plate. But give him Christ—and he can sing for joy with empty pockets.
Illustration: A poor soap maker—“John”—works long hours, sings as he labors, sleeps with peace. A wealthy merchant hears the song and cannot sleep at all.
Equality of wealth does not produce equality of peace.
Only the Gospel gives rest to the soul.
IV. Communism Is a Godless Gospel
Make no mistake: communism is a religion. It has its creed: Man is good. It has its sacraments: Redistribute. It has its paradise: Heaven on earth. But it has no Christ. It has no answer to the King.
It denies sin. It denies the Fall. It denies the need for grace. It sees envy not as sin, but as a sign of injustice, and it levies the future against the present it demonstrable, historical obviousness.
Scripture precedes this:
Genesis 3: Man is fallen.
Romans 3: All are under sin.
Philippians 4: Contentment is learned in Christ.
Galatians 5: Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not of equality.
A Christian can be rich or poor, high or low, and still be joyful. He does not need forced equality. He needs forgiveness.
Final Warning: “An atheist may speak with eloquence… but do not be deceived. Without Christ, all words are hollow.”
Proven Take
Equality, as preached by the world, is not love. It is war against the created order, war against truth, and war against Christ. Wisdom trades not the Good Deposit for a counterfeit promissory.
God made men different, and it is good.
True peace comes only through Christ, and He is Greater.
Compelled equality is a violent, thieving, and murderous spirit that ought be guarded against in all conversations in such times as these.
Can you explain more about the gnostic antidote catechism? Curious about the numbering… is this AI generated?
The line “It (Gnosticism) replaces faith with decoding” sparked recognition in me.