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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
VOL.2, N0.6
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
ON THE VERY BRINK OF
NUCLEAR W A R!
by Herbert W. Armstrong
FEBRUARY 8, 1980
FEW seem to realize it. But when President Carter said recently
the situation with Russia is more serious than at any time since World
War II, he made the understatement of the century.
We are in fact, at the very brink of NUCLEAR WORLD WAR III! It is
not going to happen--but let me tell you the situation the U.S. government
has bungled its way into.
It is very evident that President Carter has never UNDERSTOOD
Russian Communist philosophy and basic point of view. All their think
ing is from this viewpoint. It's the place where their "camera" is set.
They do not see things as we see them. They do not think as we think.
Let me give you a brief summary. I have said before that more than
50 years ago, I studied thoroughly a so-called "Home Study Course'' in
Communist philosophy and thinking. How could it have been available to
me and not to a man who rose to become PRESIDENT?
It all began with two men, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels. They
were German. They, even as I myself have, saw that this world's govern
ments and economic systems were wrong. But they did not really know GOD
--they hatched an atheistic society--and they did not have UNDERSTANDING,
as God has given me, of The BIBLE�
Their "camera" was set to view the world as MAN views it. They could
discern much that was WRONG. But their "camera" was not focused on GOD,
and they did not see GOD'S answers to this world's evils.
So, as usually happens in human thinking shut off from God, they had
a warped view. They envisioned a world of Communism. They saw that the
world's religions were the "opium of the people," so their minds saw no
farther than to ABOLISH religion--not to seek the TRUE God and His teach
ing.
Then, about 1914-1918 came along Vladimir Lenin, a Russian, who had
studied and accepted enthusiastically and even fanatically the atheistic
ideas of Marx and Engels. Lenin turned those theoretical philosophies
into a workable NEW form of GOVERNMENT, eliminating ownership of private
property--all of which would be owned by the State (the Politboro group
at the helm), and eliminating religion. To accomplish such sweeping
changes necessitated a CAMPAIGN OF PUBLIC EDUCATION, a most essential
factor. The PEOPLE had to be induced by education to give up their
property and their religion--the two things closest to their hearts.