How the Russian Revolution Spread Her Errors

Excerpt from Divini Redemptoris - Pope Pius XI 1937

There's nothing more refreshing than Truth. You have to search far and wide today to get any dose of Truth today.  For me personally the past few years, I believed that truth was entirely in logic, common sense, reason and politics.   Basically I used all these things combined to arrive and make sense of whatever issue it was I had  before me. 

The excerpt above is from Pope Pius XI encyclical Divini Redemptoris.  It's one of the most brilliant encyclicals I have ever read. Brilliant not just in its reasoning and content, but just take note of the date(1937)  Think back to how the world was back then. Then read this encyclical in the context of how forward looking the points were that  Pope Pius was emphasizing, almost warning in expectation.

What made me even want to read this letter?  It starts with investigation. To find answers, clues and to formulate  my understanding of why things are the way they are today. How did we get to this point  were there's so much confusion, so much disillusionment??  Yet, ask the average person today and no one really can put their finger on exactly  where our modern society went off the rails. Many will tout how wonderful and convenient living in the modern world is, but the very same people cannot answer why so many living in the modern society are genuinely unfulfilled, and unhappy

With all due respect to our psychology and sociologist friends, they make good arguments for why things are the way they are. I believe they are right in many ways, but I also believe they are missing a big piece of the puzzle. That piece is something only Pope Pius and many who don't  separate  spiritual and moral truths from every day life can understand.   

without the foundation of morality in your reasoning, it's very hard to hit the nail squarely on the head as Pope Pius did. What is often too common today is morality is removed from ideology, yet ideology is sometimes applied in religion and faith. Ideology really doesn't belong in faith, it doesn't serve faith as Pope Francis has recently talked about.  

Lets look at typical example though.  Many liberal, socialist, leftists  and progressives, would never concede that their beliefs could have any relation or semblance to Communism.  Communism in their minds. by its very definition is an extreme form of ideology. Now be fair to the progressive, they are no where near the extremities of Communism. However that's not the point. To remove morality from  ideology does not require the extremes. All it takes is some denial and some indifference, and morality is gone. This applies to conservatism as well.

  Often times today, someone with a political view can separate morality from their ideology and political affiliation. How many Catholic politicians out there support abortion?  Probably more than oppose it. How many conservative Catholic politicians flipped and favoured gay marriage? Morality can change with the wind if ideology is the justification for ones actions. However, if morality is based on Faith, it can not, and will not change, because your personal beliefs are removed. Your truth is not yours, it is Gods truth and you're rightly commanded to follow.

In this excerpt above, Pope Pius, from a moral and spiritual lens clearly points out what Communism espouses. This was nearly 30 years before the social revolution that changed the moral and traditional landscape in Western society, and many parts of the world, well before Communism reared it's ugly head.      Now if any world or public figure wrote about this today, it wouldn't matter a whole lot. Why?  Because all these things that the Pope wrote about have already spread globally in the West, it's already woven into the social fabric of society. What the Pope saw and warned about has already come to fruition.  Even so, society, government, politicians, sociologists, and even the religious will deny it's accurate, they will reason it's something else that caused this drastic transformation. The reason is often a political or economic reason(that's what I use to think it was, before Faith enlighten men)      Granted if that is true, doesn't Communism itself shape political and economic landscape?  

So that's what I mean about arriving at the entire truth.  Yes, it's a political and economic reason our society, our social value, our social roles have changed, especially as it applies to women and the family.  However, the moral basis of why this political and economic change happened is rooted by the spread of Communism tenets.  Tenets that ripped the morality out of our nation from the bottom up, from the most important member our our society. the Woman, the Mother. 

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Role Reversal - The Divergent Paths of America vs Russia

As we mentioned in the previous post. This tectonic shift on the world stage of politics, social debate, cultural and religious divide continues to widen. It may not be Earth shattering just yet. Think of it like small tremors murmuring and you can just feel the vibrations beneath your feet. Nevertheless,it is no less significant for the United States and the American government. There is no doubt that the 20th century was the most glorious time for the United States. Two World Wars, other major wars like Vietnam and Korea and The Great Depression yet America stood tall. Immigrants from across the world saw its fruits and plenty, its open arms and the promises that you could prosper and have the opportunity not seen elsewhere. Fast forward a mere 14 years after the century of dominance. The failures, flops, blunders, waste, faults and sins of a government are unending and its once proud people are forced to endure excuse after excuse, promise after promise of false hope after false hope, and now bold distortions to the events happening in the Middle East and neighboring regions. Once upon a time, America could be bold, she could declare the communist were the devils that had to be destroyed and repelled at all costs. Personally, I wouldn't totally disagree that communism was one of the most evil inventions of mankind, however how we dealt with them would be another matter.

Faith and Morality Matters
Courtesy Camtistic.com

The old Soviet Union basically fell flat on its face. after Ronald Reagan escalated the arms race, the old Soviets dug their own grave when they thought they could arm the country to the teeth, even though economically they were absolutely crippled. The path of divergence and the whole dynamics of yesteryear is just that, it's all in the past. It's a different game today, circumstances have reset and anything good or bad that America did in the past is not relevant or affects the current state of affairs. Similarly, to compare the current Russia today(something Western media loves to do) with the former Soviet Union is flawed and unhelpful in understanding the overall dynamics. Clearly the Russians saw their prominence, world influence and power disintegrate after 1980's. America had free reign as the most influential and all powerful military force. Not so today. America and Europe are essentially joined at the head. Both economies are big, both economies are broke with huge debt and slow to no growth. Here's what doesn't make sense. Why does the EU and America want the Ukrainians to be part of the EU?  Why does the EU in particular want the Ukraine so bad that it would risk sparking a military conflict not just a political conflict?

Crimea in Crisis
By Valentin Ramirez (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Whether it's the Middle East, South China Sea, and  now  the doorsteps of Russia, other than influence and power, which is always at the heart of these tensions, this is also about America, the EU and the West's attempt of reclaiming some of its own glory it believes it is entitled to.  Russia believed this in a similar way.  Russia is a nation on the rebound after 2 decades following  the collapsed communist state.  The difference and the divergence is this:   Overall, economically, socially,politically, and some like myself would argue morally,  Russia is on the rise.   America, the EU and the West are clearly on the skids and sliding fast.

Who would have ever thought in our lifetime.  After the long bitter cold war, that the President of Russia would preach to the West about Christian values.   I find it very amusing that Mr Putin is vilified in the Western media, yet after following many of his political moves with regards to Iran, Syria and his comments about the corrupt Western banking system,  Mr Putin is speaking the truth.   He certainly is more factual with his analysis on a wide range of issues.

No where in the Western world will you see a leader of a nation defend Christianity.  Now where. On the contrary, the Western world leaders run at the utterance of anything deemed "Christian"  Eastern nations like Russia look at the West with much distrust.  Putin himself believes that the West is on the skids, meaning he sees the West not only in economic decay, but also in social and moral decay.

If he is in fact correct in his assessment.  Mr Putin's stock as a force in world politics will only rise.  He has absolutely embarrassed  the US, Israel and the Western Europeans on the foreign policy stage   I nod my head and crack a smile when Mr Putin calls out the West about the countless lies and propaganda that they(the West) injects to brainwash the masses.  Whether it be the accusation of the Syrian government using chemical weapons, or the US central bank destroying the dollar so that it can inflate markets, it's sad that we can't get the truth Mr Putin speaks about from our own leaders at home.

This rise and prominence of Mr Putin is not a trivial matter.  This is not the Cold War revisited.  During the Cold War, there is no doubt the West(including the US) had the moral high ground. In this unfolding drama, clearly the US government has a real moral crisis it has to come to terms with.