His book,
Love Letter to America, is a very fascinating read. It's on the internet archive here.
From the book:
Yuri Bezmenov said:
Scientific knowledge seldom generates strong collective emotions. Many scientists have preferred life and affluence to death for scientific truth. I have never heard of a man who would staunchly face a firing squad for the sake of defending the truth of the Law of Gravity or 2x2=4. But FAITH in the seemingly irrelevant (at the time) and immaterial teachings of Jesus Christ generated such tremendous MORAL FORCE in MILLIONS of human beings for the past TWO THOUSAND YEARS, that people willingly and happily accept violent death and tortures rather than deny their belief in Christ!
Communism and its Marxist- Leninist dogma, according to some thinkers (Dr. George Steiner for one), is another distorted form of FAITH, able to inspire martyrdom in millions. Substituting the traditional values of the Judeo-Christian heritage with this Marxist- Satanic faith is one of the basic principles of subversion at the stage of DEMORALIZATION — the highest and most effective level of IDEAS.
Eric Voegelin, a refugee from Nazi Germany, made very similar points in his book
The New Science of Politics. Communists, Nazis, and other modern political movements have faith in the delusion that utopia can be achieved on earth. They're working towards what they think is the salvation of mankind, but their false beliefs result in actions that range from unhelpful to downright evil. Take feminists, for example: all the demands of the early feminists were met decades ago. And yet they're still miserable, which doesn't fit their utopian idea. So they assume that all the men in the world are united in an invisible patriarchy network to keep women down, and start making policies that align with that belief.
The antidote such nonsense is the Christian faith, which teaches that humans are born with the inclination to sin. And humans will keep killing, stealing, coveting our neighbor's wife, etc. until the day we die. We have to try to make the earth more like paradise ("thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven"), but we realize that there will always be evil and suffering until the next life. While have to do our best to reflect God's image, we suffer no shock when others don't. And we can work out our salvation without any political power, while the progressives' idea of salvation requires that it be imposed by the government through physical force.
The belief that everything is going to be okay in this life is a one-way ticket to profound misery.
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