Australia cannot ignore reality any longer: an unhealthy relationship has formed between Marxist activism and the Christian church. Whether it be through the content of our school systems or the sermons of increasingly woke popes, it is the church that has allowed itself to be subdued by predatory politics.
These unlikely bedfellows are not a recent hookup. Christianity and collectivism have an entwined history – particularly in Europe. The West has endured Romantic Socialism, Christian Socialism, and Christian Communism; each liaison more dangerous than the last.
These movements surrounded themselves with prominent religious figures who had been toying with collectivist ideas from at least the fourteen hundreds onward. They were drawn to the utopian ideals put forward by collectivist philosophers and dreamed of a life free of the poverty and death that pervaded Europe during those years of war, famine, and plague.