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No Ralph Warnock, the early Church was not socialist
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No Ralph Warnock, the early Church was not socialist
No Ralph Warnock, the early Church was not socialist | Thursday, April 29, 2021
âThe early church was a socialist church.â
So said the Rev. Raphael Warnock in 2016, four years before the citizens of Georgia elected him as a U.S. senator.
âThe early church was a socialist church.â
So said Rev. Raphael Warnock in 2016, four years before the citizens of Georgia elected him a U.S. senator.
Itâs a strange statement, least of all because the description âsocialist churchâ is an oxymoron. Not only would the Church fathers be puzzled by it, but so would socialismâs fathers.
âEveryone must be absolutely free to ⦠be an atheist,â wrote Vladimir Lenin, âwhich every socialist is, as a rule.â
âReligion and communism are incompatible, both theoretically and practically,â noted Nikolai Bukharin, founding editor of Pravda. âCommunism is incompatible with religious faith.â On behalf of the Bolsheviks, he insisted: âA fight to the death must be declared upon religion. We must take on religion at the tip of the bayonet.â
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Life and times of Claudia Jones: In her own words February 25, 2021 1:43 PM CDT By Claudia Jones
Claudia Jones, then the secretary of the Women s Commission of the Communist Party USA, is pictured at the party s national office in New York City, Jan. 22, 1948. | People s World Archives
Claudia Jones (1915–1964), an Afro-Caribbean woman born in Port of Spain, British West Indies (Trinidad), was a Communist activist in the U.S., holding several responsible positions within the Communist Party and for its publications until her deportation in 1955 to Great Britain. There, based in London, she played a leading role in the West Indian community, editing the left-wing West Indian Gazette, and founding (in 1959) the Caribbean Carnival, a cultural event now attract