From: Lewrockwell.com
by Thomas DiLorenzo
Tyrants have always known
that they must either infiltrate and control the clergy, or destroy it.
For in the tyrant’s mind there can never be two sovereigns. If God is
your sovereign, then those who run the state are not, period. The word
of God cannot be used to challenge the word of kings, princes, and
potentates. It is potentially a lethal challenge to their supposed
“authority” over anyone and everyone.
Ancient monarchs claimed a “divine right of kings,” implying that
anything the king said or did was, by definition, divine. Disobey the
king, and you were disobeying God himself. The clergy of the day were
rewarded with pelf and power in return for supporting this false
religion.
In more modern times the Soviet Union simply murdered thousands of
priests. What little remnant was left of religion in the world’s
biggest socialist paradise was staffed by KGB agents posing as priests,
as Yuri Maltsev, a former advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev and now an
American citizen, has said. These Potemkin Village churches allowed
the Soviet regime to tell the Big Lie that there was still freedom of
religion under communism.
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