Religion: Is Communism Christian?

The Very Rev. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of England's Canterbury Cathedral, has long managed to maintain a strict distinction between pulpit and soapbox. Last week, for the first time, the Red Dean decided to move his soapbox into church.

He had just begun the first of six announced sermons on "Christianity and Communism" when Canterbury Cathedral's 100 loudspeakers began emitting earsplitting squeals. Said the Dean: "I think there must be an enemy here." (Technicians later found that somebody had tampered with the public-address system.) Then he turned off the mike, launched into a sermon that his congregation found even more...

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