Interesting how
what this good man had to say in 1966 parallels
today's compromising (leftwing/liberal)
and apostate churches in America and
abroad.
TESTIMONY OF REV. RICHARD
WURMBRAND (U.S. Senate 1966):
COMMUNIST EXPLOITATION OF RELIGION
- The
Archbishop of Canterbury and many canons and so on
have been in our country recently, last year. So I
asked Christian leaders - I will not tell names -
"Why have you sat at banquets with our inquisitors?
I am a little pastor, I cannot interrogate you, but
I speak for the others who cannot speak for
themselves. "Why have you sat at banquets with our
inquisitors?" I was answered, "We are
Christians and must have friendship and fellowship
with everybody, with the Communists, too. Don't you
agree?" I said, "I can't polemicize with you.
I have not read the Bible for 14 years. You must
know Christianity better than I. Faintly I
remember in the Bible
it is written that friendship with the world is
hatred toward God. But
supposing you must have friendship and fellowship
with everybody. How is it that you have had friendship
and fellowship only with our inquisitors,
and with us never?"
- In Rumania you are
allowed to say as much as you like that God is good.
You are not allowed to say
that the Devil is bad. St. John the
Baptist could have saved his life if he had (only) said:
"Repent because the
kingdom of heaven is near." Nobody would have touched him.
He was
touched when he said, "You, Herod, are bad."
If Christ would have
delivered a thousand "Sermons on the Mount" they
would not have crucified Him. They crucified Him when He said,
"You vipers," then He was crucified.
In Rumania you can say God
is good but you can't say "communism is cruel, they commit
atrocities, it is a crime to poison children with
atheism." If you do this you go to
prison. There are many priests, rabbis, and pastors who
compromise and don't put the dot on the "I." There exists the real church and the
real religion (versus) and that which compromises.
- A little lion in its first days you can play with him
just like with a puppy. When he becomes great, only then
he is a lion. Yugoslavian communism is this little
communism. And American communism a very little
one and English communism is a very little
one. When they grow, when they can do whatever
they will to do, then only we can see them.
With us, in the beginning, we also had a very nice
communism. I have seen in Rumanian Communist
demonstrations signs with the slogan, "God save the
King." I have seen the communist Secretaries of State
making great crosses, showing themselves as
being on the side of religion and making
compliments to religion and bowing to religion and
saying they are Democrats.
- Rumanian Communists are very interested in the fact
that you have here, in the States, something like
300,000 on their side. They can't very well win them for
communism, but they can win them for a leftwing Christianity (that would include BO's Rev
"Wrong") which supports
communism.
- By knife. I have been in Oslo. I went to a hospital.
There were several physicians. I can give their names. I
spoke with them about religion. In the beginning they
said, "We are atheists," and then they saw my body and I
asked them what treatment do I need. They said: "About
treatment, do not ask us. Ask only the ONE in whom we don't believe,
but who has kept you alive, because according to our
medical books, you are dead. A man who has what you
have, with four vertebras broken, cannot live.
According to our medical books, you are dead. If you
are alive, then the ONE
in whom we don't believe has kept you alive."
Pastor Richard
Wurmbrand (March 24,
1909 - February 17, 2001) was a
Romanian Christian minister of Jewish descent who
spent fourteen years in Communist imprisonment and torture in his homeland of
Romania. He was one of Romania's most widely known
Jewish Believer leaders, authors, and educators.
In 1945, when the Communists
seized Romania and attempted to control the churches
for their purposes, Richard Wurmbrand immediately
began an effective "underground" ministry to his
enslaved people and the invading Russian soldiers.
He was eventually arrested in 1948. Richard spent
three years in solitary confinement, seeing no one
but his Communist torturers.
http://richardwurmbrandbio.info/