A Deadly List

A deadly List,

Below is a list of some of the worst despots in world history.
Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50) 49-78,000,00 people murdered
Jozef Stalin (USSR 1932-39 only) 15,000,000 people murdered (not counting what happened after world war two)
Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79) 1,700,000 people murdered
Kim II Sung (North Korea 1948-94) 1.6 million people murdered (his son continues the carnage)
Ho Chi Min (Vietnam 1953-56) 200,000 people murdered
Vladimir Ilich Lenin (USSR, 1917-20) 30,000 people murdered
Adolf Hitler (Germany 1939-1945) 12,000,000 plus people murdered in the death camps alone, (not counting war dead from the war he caused, at estimated at 60 million plus, civilian and military).
As my friend said, they were all equal opportunity murderers they not only killed Jews and Christians but anyone who got in their way.
Abba Hillel Silver wrote,
“Faith in God is the strongest bulwark of a free society.  Human freedom began when men became conscious that over and above society and nature there is a God who created them...who fashioned them in His likeness, and that they are, therefore, possessed of intrinsic and independent significance and are endowed, as individuals, with original and irrevocable rights and authority.”
                  Abba Hillel Silver.
Abba Hillel Silver was right when you take God and the moral laws he has placed on the hearts of all men out of society you eventually get tyranny.
Take a look at the list above all were against not only Christianity and Judaism but God in general.
These men came to power by force and false promises.
Lenin and Hitler promised virtual Utopia on earth a better life but at what cost? The cost of the lives of those they disliked or stood up to them. It was the same for all on the above list.
I think history shows clearly from the pharaoh’s of Egypt on down to today. When men fail to recognize the one true God when men fail to fear God, people suffer.
No atheist has ever written a moral code equal to that of the ten commandments.
The Bible was written during a savage time in human history when nations were crushing nations. Yet it tells us to love our neighbour.
Even Jesus being put to death on the cross rather than curse the men who put him there called out “father forgive them for they no not what they do.”
Jesus said,
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’  
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,  
that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.  
If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?  
 And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?” 
 Matthew 5:43-47
To pray for our enemies and persecutors seems to the human mind counter productive. Yet Christians are told to do so.
I know of no other group of people in society today anywhere in the world that is praying for people that are against them. Yet Christians are.
I know from talking to people through the years that each dictator listed at the beginning of this article has at one time been prayed for by Christians.
We do so because we believe it is only through Christ that lives can truly be changed for the better.
That a life based on true Christian love and understanding can truly change the world.
 Those who would raise the sword of oppression against anyone. Those who would wish to conquer the world would be wise to listen to the words of Napoleon Bonaparte who did try to conquer the world. He wrote,

"You speak of Caesar, of Alexander, of their conquests and of the enthusiasm which they enkindled in the hearts of their soldiers; but can you conceive of a dead man making conquests, with an army faithful and entirely devoted to his memory? My armies have forgotten me even while living, as the Carthaginian army forgot Hannibal. Such is our power.”
“I know men and I tell you, Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour, millions would die for him.”
“I search in vain history to find similar to Jesus Christ, or anything which can approach the gospel.  Neither history nor humanity, nor ages, nor nature, offer me anything with which I am able to compare it or to explain it. Here everything is extraordinary.”
                                                                                       Napoleon Bonaparte,
Think about it.