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" These liberals were prey, typically made vulnerable by their misplaced trust in the far left. They mistakenly saw American Communists as their friends and as simply another group of citizens practicing civil liberties in a democratic society based on First Amendment freedoms. Most liberals, obviously, were not themselves Communists, but in sharing the left portion of the ideological spectrum, they shared with the Communists many key sympathies: workers’ rights, the redistribution of wealth, an expansive federal government, a favoring of the public sector over the private sector, class-based rhetoric (often demagoguery) "
― Paul Kengor , DUPES: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century
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" So why aren’t you dead?” The shooter was incredulous: “I know I was aiming right. I know that the bullet was a killer. So why aren’t you dead?”92 Dziwisz, standing a few yards away from the conversation, sensed that Agca was “terrified by the fact that there were forces bigger than he was.” The Muslim had found out that there was not just one Fátima—that is, Muhammad’s favorite daughter—but also another one, whom he called the “goddess of Fátima.” According to Dziwisz, Agca, who thought in terms of divine retribution, told John Paul II that he was afraid that this powerful “goddess” would avenge herself on him and “get rid of” him. "
― Paul Kengor , A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century
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" For that matter, just as Marx was not very impressed with Christians, he also was quite unimpressed with Christianity. And for those modern-day “social justice” Christians who like to invoke communism as somehow consistent with or reflective of Christian social teaching, well, Karl Marx begged to differ. “The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility,” scowled Marx. “The social principles of Christianity are hypocritical. … So much for the social principles of Christianity.”68 "
― Paul Kengor , The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration