The Handmaid's Truth

The left is fond of fear-mongering the idea of the rise of a theocratic America—Conflating the idea of preserving morality, self control, personal responsibility for ones actions, even proficiency in language and mathematics, with the imposition of oppression. Especially the oppression of women based on Biblical principle.

This mania on the left ignores the fact the freest nations in history for women, have existed in nations where the majority is Christian. Observing the rise of socialism on our campuses and amongst our politicians harboring a genuine hatred for our own nation—The parallels between what is happening here and the historical record of places with true oppression are in stark relief.

Anyone who has done a comprehensive, or even a middling but serious study of socialism, realizes the incongruity of an alliance between Marxist/Communist ideology and any Abrahamic religion. The very idea of say a Democratic Socialist Muslim, like the rising New York politician Zohran Mamdani, stretches all credulity. At least it should.

To be a Marxist Christian, Jew, or Muslim, is to give full reign to cognitive dissonance to a fanatical level—One must clearly give more credence to the philosophy of men ahead of the precepts of the God revealed in the Holy Bible and the god of the Qur’an.

However, the Mamdani’s of the world are not without solid precedence. The Iranian revolution deposing the Shah of Iran in 1979, was driven, in large part, by socialist Muslims in concert with Islamic fundamentalist groups. The playbook is identical to what we see playing out amongst our youth on campuses and with so many young Americans, like the ones propelling the New York Assembly-Man today.

“Why should the Shah be rich and live in a palace while so many Iranians are poor?” Equity, equity, equity. And so it was, going back to the early 20th century, reaching an apex in the late 1970s. You had in Iran (This is not a comprehensive list, there were many more) the Unified Socialist Party (Persia) 1904, Communist Party of Persia 1917.

In the 20s Socialist Party (Iran), Young Communist League of Persia, Revolutionary Republican Party of Iran. The 40s the Comrades Party, the Movement of God-Worshipping Socialists, the United Front of Progressive Parties founded by the communist Tudeh Party and the Iran Party. The Iran Unity Party,

1951 the Toilers Party of the Iranian Nation, 1960s the League of Iranian Socialists, Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas, the Organization of Communist Revolutionaries. 1970’s the Maoist Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran), Peykar: Organization of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, the Movement of Militant Muslims, the  Iranian Islamic socialist political group led by Habibollah Payman. The Organization of Working-class Freedom Fighters.

1980s and still in existence we find, the Marxist/Leninist Fedaian Organisation, the Communist Party of Iran. So called Islamic Socialists, Like the “Democratic Socialist Muslim” Zohran Mamdani ushered in the modern regime of Islamic, Sharia law fundamentalist, lead by the Ayatollahs and Mullah’s since 1979.

What Mamdani wants, is freedom as defined by HIS ideology, one ironically alien to the easily manipulated American youth aligning themselves with Hamas and Hezbollah. A youth driven by a mutual hate with terrorist groups for America, fostered by socialist Academics. Everywhere socialism and Islamism take root around the world, they lead to real oppression, not merely “Tales” like the ones penned by Margaret Atwood and hailed by the soft minded across the world.

The American left screams for equity, while sympathizing with peoples and groups who have little regard for personal choice and freedom. Women waving flags in solidarity with Hamas and Palestine, denigrating the action taken in Iran by the current administration—While never dreaming of giving up their inalienable rights to suffer through what women in these places endure and will continue enduring if the status quo is maintained, or if Israel indeed ceases to exist from the “River to the sea” as they are wont to chant.

Where are the Atwoodian Gileads in the world structured on the torturing of Old Testament Scripture? The only such examples extant, are those beginning outside Biblical pretext. It is irrational to fear the fictional red garments of the Handmaid’s Tale, while ignoring the worldwide examples of  the very real garments worn by oppressed women under the socialist/Islamist Handmaid’s Truth.

The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of society—the taking possession of the means of production in the name of society—this is, at the same time, its last independent act as a State. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The State is not “abolished.” It dies out.

Friedrich Engels, Socialism, Utopian and Scientific (1901)

Ludwig Von Mises wrote ” The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private ownership of the means of production everywhere and when laws, the tribunals and the administration treat foreigners and citizens on equal terms, it is of little importance where a country's frontiers are drawn.”

This is still the modest operandi of the American left, open borders and control of enterprise—The only problem is these concepts lead not to universal peace, but rather the murder of 100s of millions throughout the 20th century—Endless war and bloodshed as the revolution continues to impose Marxism on a world rejecting it. An endless cycle of violence, poverty, lack of resources and misery.

The creeds of the left are not reconcilable with the Holy God revealed in the Holy Bible, you cannot be both a socialist and Christian. You cannot pretend to be a Jewish Socialist like Bernie Sanders—The left may tolerate you calling yourself a Christian, or Jew while advancing atheistic materialism, they simply call you a “Useful Idiot” behind your back. Meanwhile, with bated breath they patiently wait for the day they grasp ultimate power so they can crush the faith out of you.

“The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.”

Karl Marx, Das Kapital

The simple reality is, Marxism begins from a pretext of envy, it is plain dealing covetousness—Born of a lack of personal industry, driving malcontents to seize, rather than build. To redistribute rather than contribute. It all comes down to the lazy individuals desire for money, outstripping the drive to earn it for themselves.

Make no mistake, money is the idol of the left, hence the obsession with controlling it. To Paraphrase Orwell—all-are-equal—but-some-are-more-equal-than-others. Certainly the case in the chronicles of history where the intelligentsia overseeing the proletariat live far better than their “Comrades” n'est-ce pas?


On the other hand God in His Holy Text teaches “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Matthew 6:24

So it is no wonder we find men like Mamdani echoing the words of their political and philosophical progenitors—When he offhandedly comments on the importance of “Seizing the means of production” In an interview with the Young Democratic Socialists of America in February 2021. 

As a Christian, the idea of supporting socialism of any kind, or the likes of Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or the latest cause célèbre Mamdani, is patently absurd, I believe the Bible, “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” James 1:8

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Unstable Christianity?

One of the earliest Hallelujah moments for me as I began my walk with Christ some thirty odd years ago came as I studied this passage in the Gospel of Saint Luke first chapter:

39 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;

40 And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth.

41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:

42 And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.

45 And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.

It filled me with joy! The revelation of the nascent John the Baptist in Elizabeth’s womb reacted to merely hearing the voice of the mother of the also nascent Christ—How wonderful the workings of God! This likewise marked the end of my heretofore pro-choice position on the  issue of abortion.

You see, as a Spirit filled Christian, I realized like a thunderbolt from heaven, I could not reconcile the incongruity of a person, woman or otherwise having agency in determining the fruit of her womb's worthiness of the God given gift of  life. It pricks at my heart this is not readily understood by all who claim faith in the child growing in Mary’s womb.

The child growing in Elizabeth’s body was no less John the Baptist than the fellow who shouted; “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.’ The Child in Mary’s body was the same Christ who said; “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”

Given modern thought, many would have advised Mary it would have been wise, given the circumstance of Christ’s conception, to “choose” ending her pregnancy. The idea the person growing within her has no right to life. Particularly when one considers His mother lived in an age of dire consequences for adultery, and the views in the day on fornication.

It struck home for me personally as I and my then future wife had made the very “choice ourselves when she became pregnant early in our relationship—I paid to abort what would have been our first child. We allowed our lack of faith at the time to rob us of a blessing, though the child’s origin was outside God’s prescribed order. Marriage, then sexual relations.

It was compounded by my having made the same decision earlier in my life with another woman. It was a decision not made due to a lack of resources, but rather motivated purely out of selfishness and the wish to avoid distasteful scrutiny. I did not see the children as people, just an ill timed inconvenience.

Then one reads Psalms 139:

13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

This drove me to repentance, Prostrate I asked the Lord’s forgiveness, He being faithful to His Word , through faith in Him who has forgiven me. By faith in His promises, proven not by blind belief, but by evidences of His actions in my past I take solace in the hope I shall know these offspring robbed of an earthly life in the eternal life to come.

Had I not early in life been a faithless unbeliever, I would have reacted like Joseph did as recorded in Matthew the first chapter:

18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.

20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins.

22 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,

23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

Indeed, hopefully, I would not have fornicated to begin with. Scripture teaches in James the first chapter: Verse eight; “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” This prompts me to ask those who claim Christ as personal savior committed to Him, who still advocate for “Choice” on behalf of "women's rights,"  are you double minded? If not, how do you reconcile this in light of God so often making statements like:

“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5, and:

Isaiah 49:1

Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.

Galatians 1:15

But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased

Ephesians 1:4

For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

Romans 8:29

For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

Isaiah 44:2

This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Job 31:15

Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

How do you argue a woman, or any man has the right to undo what God has made? How do you reject participating with God in His acts of creation? How is your wisdom greater than the creator of ALL THINGS? I ask these questions sincerely, as we all must answer for what we have done in the body when we stand before Him. I know I am not the first to make these points, or to posit these questions, yet I am driven to do so in this hour—I do pray we examine ourselves and our choices in light of God’s revelation. It is through these revelations we are able to apprehend the character of God.

Second Timothy Chapter 3, verse 16 states, "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness". 

We ALL sin and fall short of the glory of God, “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”—Yet we are all called to conform to His Word. We are not citizens of this world and should not follow the ways of the world. We are called to take on the Mind of Christ and to seek His kingdom first. So I ask you, on the question of life, have you gone astray? Can you hear the Good Shepherd's voice? Are you an unstable Christian?

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