Our God — Page 207
Refutation of Arguments Supporting Atheism 207 whereby Russia took over the control of resources in an effort to justly distribute the country’s wealth, so they believe. They have stumbled in this effort and the harmful effects are being felt insid- iously even now as evidenced by perpetual changes in the system but more obvious effects will surface after a few generations. In any case, communism is merely an economic system and has nothing to do with existence of God. Nevertheless, it made its headway by disrupting other systems including those attributed to religions. Thus, apparently, a confrontation has developed between this sys- tem and the teachings of religions. The second reason for this confrontation was that the commu- nist leaders abolished religious teaching in the schools to indoc- trinate the youth with communism, and to exclude the impact of any anti-communist ideas. That has led to the spread of atheism in the country, but atheism is not part of communism. Instead, it is a consequence of factors surrounding it. There is nothing in communism itself which could be taken as an argument against the existence of God. The principles and some details of the com- munist system are, undoubtedly, against the teachings of known religions and contain, from a purely academic point of view, sev- eral dangerous elements that will unfold their formidable effects after a few generations. In any case, fundamentally, communism is an economic system—not religious or spiritual. So it is not right to present it in support of atheism. For centuries, the European economic system had resulted in the accumulation of wealth of nations in the hands of a few capi- talists, while the rest of the population struggled in dire straits of poverty. The situation deteriorated to such an extent that desper- ate measures to change the system were inevitable. The situation