Marxists believed science was the only source of truth. They accepted no explanation for events other than what was observable with their senses or could be measured mathematically. Seeing the Image of God in another person is not possible if observation and measurement are the only means of truth. Hence, those who disagreed with Marxists were treated as subhuman. As Richard Wurmbrand described it:
What the Communists have done to Christians surpasses any possibility of human understanding. I have seen Communists whose faces while torturing believers shone with rapturous joy. They cried out while torturing the Christians, 'We are the devil!' We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities and powers of evil. We saw that communism is not from people but from the devil. It is a spiritual force - a force of evil and can only be countered by a greater spiritual force, the Spirit of God. I often asked the torturers, 'Don't you have pity in your hearts?' They usually answered with quotations from Lenin: 'You cannot make omelets without breaking the shells of eggs,' and 'You cannot cut wood without making chips fly.' I said again, know these quotations from Lenin. But there is a difference. When you cut a piece of wood it feels nothing. But here you are dealing with human beings. Every beating produces pain and there are mothers who weep.' It was in vain. They are materialists, for them nothing besides matter exists and to them a person is like wood, like an eggshell. With this belief they sink to unthinkable depths of cruelty.
Richard Wurmbrand in Tortured for Christ
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