Red Churches in China

One does not need to be devoutly religious to be nauseated by the spectacle which the Soviet Russian Orthodox Church has made of itself since Stalin—product of a theological seminary—had the bright idea, during World War Two, that enough rogues and cowards could be found in clerical garb to set up a hierarchy wholly subservient to an aggressively atheistic despotism. A vast number of Americans, religious and irreligious alike, look upon a recent visitor to this country—the white-whiskered old hierarch of the Red Church in the USSR, Nicolai—as a sort of perambulating whited sepulchre. But the clerical prostitution of which Nicolai reminded so many is not confined to the Soviet Union. Stalin’s nasty game—one of the many that Khrushchev has not denounced—has been emulated throughout all the domains of the unlamented Vozhd, even in China.

Persons interested in church work probably know that efforts have been made in every European Red satellite to find enough clowns and cowards in unholy orders to organize both Catholic and Protestant churches subservient to the puppet dictatorships. Their business it would be to crowd out—as bad money crowds out good—the genuine religious organizations which the Reds fear but dare not savagely liquidate. They fear such organizations—whether Christian, Moslem or Buddhist. They have no fear of pseudo-religious organizations under the control of subsidized agents who are willing to make a masquerade of their profession.

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One does not need to be devoutly religious to be nauseated by the spectacle which the Soviet Russian Orthodox Church has made of itself since Stalin—product of a theological seminary—had the bright idea, during World War Two, that enough rogues and cowards could be found in clerical garb to set up a hierarchy wholly subservient to an aggressively atheistic despotism. A vast number of Americans, religious and irreligious alike, look upon a recent visitor to this country—the white-whiskered old hierarch of the Red Church in the USSR, Nicolai—as a sort of perambulating whited sepulchre. But the clerical prostitution of which Nicolai reminded so many is not confined to the Soviet Union. Stalin’s nasty game—one of the many that Khrushchev has not denounced—has been emulated throughout all the domains of the unlamented Vozhd, even in China.

Persons interested in church work probably know that efforts have been made in every European Red satellite to find enough clowns and cowards in unholy orders to organize both Catholic and Protestant churches subservient to the puppet dictatorships. Their business it would be to crowd out—as bad money crowds out good—the genuine religious organizations which the Reds fear but dare not savagely liquidate. They fear such organizations—whether Christian, Moslem or Buddhist. They have no fear of pseudo-religious organizations under the control of subsidized agents who are willing to make a masquerade of their profession.