Our God — Page 209
Refutation of Arguments Supporting Atheism 209 2. The second big drawback of communism is that, with all the resources in the hands of the government, the spirit to compete and excel each other will start waning, inevitably resulting in gradual national decline. For instance, when several individuals or firms, in addition to the state, are engaged in the manufacturing of cars or aircraft, and trying to promote the industry through hard work and research and with healthy rivalry and competition, the industry will flourish a great deal. By contrast, the industry monop- olised by one system, and without any competition, will never make similar progress. Thus, the country will start declining in academic and industrial fields. Indeed, some industries can be, and should be, nationalised but whole- sale nationalisation will sow the seeds of destruction of the country. 3. The above two will inevitably slow down the intellectual development and progress, and the human brain will ulti- mately be reduced to a machine. 4. Communism has also crushed individual sympathy and camaraderie inasmuch as the assistance of the poor and the deserving is in the hands of the government and no one else will have money to spare to help the poor or gift a dear one. As a result, the high moral values relating to love, friendship, sympathy, sacrifice, hospitality, helping the poor, kinship, and good-neighbourliness will start dying out and human society will become mechanised like everything else in the West.