{"id":9409,"date":"2014-09-21T19:04:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T19:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=9409"},"modified":"2014-09-21T19:04:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T19:04:58","slug":"red-priests-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/red-priests-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Priests Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Munzen\"<\/a>The Prague Post<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n

Prague, Sept. 15 (\u010cTK) \u2014 Rostislav Kotr\u010d, a priest of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church, will run for the Communists (KS\u010cM) in the local elections in the autumn, daily Mlad\u00e1 fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today.
\nKotr\u010d, 40, at first wanted to join the KS\u010cM, but now he only runs as an independent for the party as No. 2 on its list of candidates, MfD writes. Kotr\u010d has been working in the Hussite church since 1999 and is the general vicar of the Christian Police Association.<\/p>\n

“He wanted to join our party, but we agreed that it would be more sensible, also due to his relationship to the church, to only stay as a sympathizer,” a local Communist from the Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9 eegion, east Bohemia, where he runs, told the paper.<\/p>\n

Kotr\u010d said he could not see any problem with him being both a priest and a candidate representing the Communists, MfD writes. “I know this is incomprehensible to many people,” he is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

“I think this is due to the constant media propaganda and bad understanding of the historical and theological context,” Kotr\u010d said.<\/p>\n

“My orientation is leftist and social. When looking into the Bible, and Acts of the Apostles in particular, which describe the origins of Christianity, one can read that people shared their property according to their needs,” he added.<\/p>\n

“This is the basic principle of communism. Unfortunately, God was lost from the philosophy, which caused its deformation,” Kotr\u010d said….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sure, that was it.<\/p>\n

For some reason Thomas M\u00fcntzer comes to mind.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia will do<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Thomas M\u00fcntzer (ca. 1489 \u2013 27 May 1525) was an early Reformation-era German theologian, who became a rebel leader during the Peasants’ War. He thought that the questioning of authority promoted by the Lutheran Reformation should be applied to the economic sphere\u2026.<\/p>\n

M\u00fcntzer spent late 1524 in Nuremberg, but in mid-February 1525 was able to return to M\u00fchlhausen. The following month, the citizenry voted out the old council and a new “Eternal League of God” was formed, composed of a cross-section of the male population and some former councillors. M\u00fcntzer and Pfeiffer succeeded in taking over the M\u00fchlhausen town council and set up a communistic experiment in its place. M\u00fcntzer wrote to the citizens of Allstedt calling them to “join the uprising”: “Be there only three of you, but if you put your hope in the name of God\u2014fear not a hundred thousand…. Forward, forward, forward! It is high time. Let not kind words of these Esaus arouse you to mercy. Look not upon the sufferings of the godless! They will entreat you touchingly, begging you like children. Let not mercy seize your soul, as God commanded to Moses; He has revealed to us the same…. Forward, forward, while the iron is hot. Let your swords be ever warm with blood!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

God certainly seems \u201cpresent\u201d in his philosophy. Communism is communism, with God or without. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Prague Post: Prague, Sept. 15 (\u010cTK) \u2014 Rostislav Kotr\u010d, a priest of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church, will run for the Communists (KS\u010cM) in the local elections in the autumn, daily Mlad\u00e1 fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today. Kotr\u010d, 40, at … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[90,711],"tags":[358,1101,403,1100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9411,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409\/revisions\/9411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}