Is it possible to be christian communist?

Question

My husband is a communist, he also is a member of the church of later day saints, is this possible?

Answer 1

If you are talking about a Marxist communist, I suggest he read Marx's Communist Manifesto, wherein he states that he "utterly hates all gods".
Now if he thinks he can reconcile this with Mormonism, he is quite a mental contortionist.

Answer 2

Pastor Billy says: oh dear a majority of these answers are so misled. One cannot be a Communist and Christian. Communism is an atheist political movement just take a look at the injustice in China today. go to http://www.asianews.it and type in Christian or Catholic or religion + China. or try http:www.forum18.org and do the same. You'll quickly discover the Communists are fearful of Christianity and loss of control over the minds of the people. They are attempting to dismantle the religious movement in China or at least impede it by closing Churches, nationalizing them and infiltrating the leadership structure.

Answer 3

Communism in it's early form was rabidly hostile towards religion in any form; today,they are somewhat more tolerant. Castro has not interfered with the Catholic Church. In China,it was only required that the Chinese Catholic Church sever it's administrative ties to Rome. If you want to be thoroughly doctrinaire,a communist (Marxist) is an atheist; but to cite one example,Liberation theology represents an attempt to integrate socialism and Catholicism. I've never heard of a Mormon communistic,but I'll take your word for it.

Answer 4

If he is a true Marxist, he could not be a member of any religion but atheism.

If he is LDS, why would want to call himself as part of a group (Christianity) that his founding prophet Joeseph Smith said was an abomination and which denies (or redefines) every major Christian belief on God, the Bible, Jesus, Salvation and the Holy Spirit.

I could call myself a "boxcar" and a "maple tree" but that doesn't mean that I meet the definition of either.

Answer 5

Yes. Christians have made great communists. True Christianity and Communism are similar. In communism the State is God; the problem is, man control the state and the state of things.

Answer 6

LDS members claim to believe in one they call Jesus Christ, but who obviously is not the Jesus of true Christianity.

Otherwise, there's no reason why a Christian couldn't be a communist, although not a "classic" ATHEISTIC MARXIST-LENINIST communist.

Answer 7

Communism is an atheist ideology. You cannot be communist and Christian at the same time.

Answer 8

Karl Marx quoted, "Religion is the opiate of the masses".

So, taking this information, we could conclude that your husband is the perfect target (not partner, not equal, but slave) for Karl Marx and his communist plan to control the masses.

Answer 9

What's a communist?

Answer 10

early christians were anarchists because they recognized the oppression of roman rule.,early communists were atheists because they recognized that church and state were intertwined and you had to destroy both to destroy either.a socialist christian makes sense because the christian message is similar to socialism's,but communism is against the church because of the lack of separation of church and state where it's ideas were formed and because of the intellectual hubris of it's founders.