The Anti Christ is Here
In 1961, the American Methodist Christian Dr. DanieI A. Poling asked the Republic of China President Chiang Kai-shek to write a church sermon. “If you were to testify to Americans, what will you say?”
Chiang Kai Shek replied, “In today’s world, there is no problem more serious than the communist problem. The communists regard the United States as their main enemy and are determined to destroy it. Unless Americans understand this urgent danger and take the necessary measures…[Americans] will also be enslaved…The rapid expansion of communism is astonishing. It took more than 1,900 years to persuade 850 million people to convert to the Lord Jesus; and in just 40 years, half of the world’s population was imprisoned in the “Iron Curtain”. We can ask ourselves, have we reached the end of a thousand years as Revelation 20 says? Satan will be released from prison to deceive the nations of the earth, Gog and Magog, and gather them together to fight; their numbers will be as numerous as the sand of the sea”
「今日世界，沒有一個問題較共產主義問題更為嚴重。在共產主義者征服世界的大計中，他們把美國視為主要敵人，並且決心要貶抑它、侮蔑它和摧毀它。除非美國人明白認識這個迫切的危險，而採取和它搏鬥或遏阻的必要措施，否則，不獨他們自由的生活，而且在其全國人民生活中佔有十分重要地位的基督教，也將一同被其奴役被其埋葬。自上帝創造宇宙以來，人類從未面臨過比今日更大的災禍。若以共產主義的威脅所造成的災禍來比較，則聖經舊約所記載的大洪水，也就微不足道了。
「共產主義擴張之迅速，殊令人驚異。勸服八億五千萬人皈主，費時達一千九百多年之久；而在短短的四十年中，全世界竟有半數人口被關入「鐵幕」之內。自第二次世界大戰結束後的十五年來，已有八億人口，生活在共產主義的奴役暴政之下。它的侵略步伐，正獲得與時俱增的速度。我們可以靜下來自問一聲，我們是否已經到了像啟示錄二十章所說的一千年的盡頭呢？「撒旦必從監獄裏被釋放，出來要迷惑地上的列國，就是歌革和瑪各，叫他們聚集爭戰；他們的人數多如海沙。」
Separately, I once heard an Orthodox Christian Priest say that Mao Zedong was the anti Christ of China. When I heard those words at the time, I became confused. What is an “Anti Christ?” I did my research and concluded that, even if you do not believe in religion and are an atheist, you can still understand this in a metaphorical way, as an analogy. An antichrist is someone who comes to the world to deceive people, into believing that doing evil is actually doing good, that morals and ethics are not absolute, but are outdated, fluid, or can be changed. The anti Christ would then construct an alternative pseduo-religion to reinforce his deception and solidify his conquest of people. If we examine the ideology of Communism and its authors Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, isn’t this the religion of the anti Christ?
Afterall, Marx and Engels wrote that Communism abolishes all eternal truths. Engels in his works, Anti-Duhring (1877) and “Of Origin of State Family and Private Property” clearly states that morals and ethics, including social and family relations are product of the material and economic conditions of society and thus can be abolished, modified or changed.
A key phrase which we hear frequently today in the 21st century left wing discourse that certain concepts are a “social construct.” Many left wing circles used this “social construct” a term to deconstruct morals and ethics, and justify debauchery. This concept of “social construct” is nothing new but is rooted in Marxist ideas of the 19th century.
This concept that morals and ethics are fluid of course is opposed by religious people; especially, Christians who believe that certain concepts are eternal, including the family relations, dignity of human life, justice, and truth. These concepts cannot be altered, modified, or abolished by human material or economic progress.
Christians believe that this eternal truth is present in non-Christian religions as well, through what Paul referred to as the “Natural Law” (Romans 2:14). This natural law is written into the conscience of human nature, making them binding across all history and human beings, regardless if they were Chinese, Russian, German, or African, and everywhere. This is why Communists despise Christians and everywhere they have come to power, they tried to erase or change religions.
Regarding if Mao Zedong was the anti Christ of China, the answer is yes. We can determine the answer base on his actions.
Mao Zedong was a man of deception
In the beginning of his regime, Mao Zedong won over the masses in China with promises of “New Democracy” and “United Front.” He presented the Communist rule in China as a “progressive” movement which would seek to peacefully unify the different classes in China. Importantly, Mao argued that the national bourgeoisie, petty bourgeois, religious people, and classes which traditionally did not fit the Marxist narrative, could have a legitimate role. That helped make the CCP’s message more appealing to people who might have been frightened to resist.
Notably, Mao Zedong promised freedom of speech, freedom of information, freedom of press, and freedom of religion among other liberties. This was all guaranteed by the “Common Program” (1949) and the First Constitution of the People’s Republic of China (1954). However, this was revealed to later be a trap.
In 1956, Mao launched the “Hundred Flowers Campaign” and encouraged intellectuals to criticize him and the communist party. He claimed that this was in order to improve his governance.
“Let everything be said and nothing be unsaid, let a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred ideas contend”
Many intellectuals who sincerely believed in Mao, made constructive criticisms of the Party. In about a month, the trap sprang shut and those who revealed themselves were labeled as rightists and persecuted.
Mao Zedong was Prideful and Elevated Himself to Be and Idol
Mao Zedong was the most prideful person and the worst idolater of Chinese history who made a cult of personality around himself when he was alive. Chinese were convinced to worship him as a living god. Mao’s portraits were hung up everywhere in China, in every workplace and school. People were required to memorize and recite his speeches known as “Mao Zedong Thought”, like a holy text.
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During the Cultural Revolution, “Mao Zedong Thought” was promoted to mystical levels where Chinese would invoke the quotations of Mao before carrying out a major task, similar to prayer. The Chinese Communist Party heavily promoted the idea that the “sciences must be informed with and guided by Mao Zedong Thought.” Professional or expert knowledge was deemed invalid or secondary to “political correctness.”
In a bizarre report, Red Guards claimed Mao Zedong’s quotations can cure mute and deaf people. In 1968, the documentary released by the CCP told an account of mute and deaf people cured with “Mao Zedong Thought” and the first words which they said were “Down with Liu Shaoqi”, Mao’s political rival. There was no scientific studies to determine how Mao Zedong’s quotations really cured mute and deaf people. Afterall, all science must conform to political correctness.
Chinese people were radicalized to hate one another based on how “left wing” their political beliefs were. Even if they were apolitical and didn’t want to care about politics, they were required express publicly the correct left wing orientation or potentially be persecuted. The youth were radicalized and encouraged to attack their own parents. A song was promoted in elementary schools in China: “Mother and Father are Dear but not as Dear as Chairman Mao Zedong.”
Mao Zedong became infallible. Once at the top of his power, Mao turned on his old comrades, people who fought along side him during the revolution. Liu Shaoqi, Peng Dehuai, and Lin Biao were persecuted to death. Deng Xiaoping barely escaped with his life, while his brother was thrown off building and rendered disabled.
Mao Zedong Did Not Respect the Dignity of Life
Mao was not opposed to the idea of eliminating human life for the sake of his own power. In his own words:
“Every day, human beings shed hair and skin — this represents the death of some cells. From childhood onwards, the death of certain cells is necessary for growth. Without such death, human beings could not survive. Since the time of Confucius, it would have been a disaster if people did not die. Death has its benefits; it can serve as fertilizer.”
— Mao Zedong Speech at the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee, December 9, 1958.
“Who was Qin Shi Huang? He buried only 460 Confucian scholars alive; we have buried 46,000… I have debated with liberals: you criticize us for being like Qin Shi Huang — that is incorrect; we have surpassed Qin Shi Huang a hundredfold. We have always admitted to being Qin Shi Huangs — to being dictators; the pity is that you do not say enough, and we often have to add to what you say.
— Mao Zedong Speeches at the Second Session of the Eighth Party Congress, May 8, 1958.
Maoism is Coming?
It is very clear to anyone who have studied what happened to China 50 years ago to not see the similarities in the left wing practices of America today. In American left wing activist discourse, there is always a phrase “silence is violence” which forbids individuals from having neutral or apolitical views. The left intentionally forces people and corporations to openly side with them through various social pressures. This is sometimes know as “virtue signaling.” This was what Marxists in China used to call “building class consciousness,” a psychological conditioning method.
In 2020, when leftist activists took over Seattle and built their own autonomous zones, it was reminisent of when Chinese Red Guards took over parts of Guangzhou, Beijing, and Nanjing, and began to fight other rival factions. In China the army stood down because Mao encouraged chaos across the country in order to purge his rivals. In America, the national guard was never mobilized to suppress the unrest, because there was also a power play going on prior to the 2020 election.
Marxist ideologies are challenging the American society, leading to the state sponsored social pressures that will ultimately take away constitutional rights and liberties.
An Orthodox Mystic, Seraphim Rose once said in the 1970s, “today in Russia, tomorrow in America.”
In Roman Catholicism, the Catholics believe that Mary occasionally appears to people with messages of the future. In July 1946, Catholic historian William Thomas Walsh interviewed Sister Lucia at her convent of the Dorothean Sisters at Vilar, Portugal. Sister Lucia was one of the witnesses of the Fatima Apparition of 1917. Walsh recorded the interview in his popular book Our Lady of Fatima.
‘What Our Lady wants is that the Pope and all the bishops in the world shall consecrate Russia to Her Immaculate Heart on one special day. If this is done, She will convert Russia and there will be peace. If it is not done, the errors of Russia will spread through every country in the world.’
‘Does this mean, in your opinion, that every country, without exception, will be overcome by Communism?’
‘Yes.’
In 1965, Albrecht Weber, German author of «Garabandal — The Finger of God» («Garabandal — Der Zeigefinger Gottes») interviewed a Christian mystic, Conchita, who claimed to have saw Mary. Conchita told him, “When communism comes again everything will happen.”
The author responded: “What do you mean by comes again?”
“Yes, when it newly comes again,” she replied.
“Does that mean that communism will go away before that?”
“I don’t know,” she said in reply, “the Blessed Virgin simply said ‘when communism comes again’.”
Coincidentally, Russia was consecrated in 1984 by Pope John Paul II. Afterwards, Sister Lucia, stated in letters that the request was fulfilled correctly. When, the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 many took this as a sign that the consecration worked.
However some Catholics claim that this 1984 ceremony was not properly performed as Pope John Paul II did not say the word “Russia.”
