Modern Ideologies at Odds with Christianity

Thesis: Nicolas Berdyaev, a Russian Chrisitian philosopher who fled the Soviet Union, recognized Nazism, Communism, and even nationalism as movements that threaten Christianity and only a return to piety will reverse these trends.

• We are witnessing the process of dehumanization in all aspects of culture and social life


• Moral consciousness is gone, man has ceased to have any value


• The youth of this world is anti-human


• Bestial cruelty is common in our age, which is more astonishing since it occurs at the very peak of human refinement.


• Barbaric instincts are filtered through civilization; it is a continuation of the war


• Everything for this war is permissible


• Inhumanity is presented as something noble, surrounded by heroism.


• No longer is every man viewed as having the image and likeness of God


• World is moved by race-ethics, nationalism, and the state instead of truth


• We are witnessing the paganization of Christian society, especially in Germany, which no longer wishes to be a Christian nation; has exchanged the swastika for the cross.


• The nation replaces God


• Nationalism involves the hatred of other nations; contradicts Christian brotherhood of man


• Man's inner world is at the mercy of collectivism


• When religious anti-Judaism becomes racial anti-Semitism, it becomes anti-Christianity


• True Chrisitians can not be racialists and hate Jews