"In a recent review of new scholarship on Soviet history for the New Republic, Martin Malia, the just-deceased dean of Soviet Studies, examined the central importance of ideology to the functioning of the Soviet system. Summarizing one scholar, Igor Halfin, Malia observed the parallels between "Soviet Marxism and Christian eschatology." Malia concluded that Halfin's evidence "does establish that the structural similarities between Marxism's historical determinism and Christian eschatology can produce millenarian expectations and dogmatic convictions as readily in the socialist militant as in the religious enthusiast."
"...Combined with the millennialism of Dobsonian and Fallwellian Christianity, we stand in the grip of a new pathological worldview. This, it should be clear, is not only a concern for liberals. It should also exercise the minds of cold war conservatives like Malia. For while one half of Malia's millenialist equation - Marxism-Leninism - is no longer with us, the other half wraps its tentacles ever more tightly around the institutions of power daily. It's important for us to see this new super strain for what it is - a mortal challenge to bedrock American institutions and a fundamental threat to world peace.
http://gadflyer.com/flytrap/index.php?Week=200451#1277
Folks...
It's time to fight against this fantasy world with the weapon of reason...
It's time to through the baby out with the bathwater.
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mark_ball/bible.html#goodness