Today on Declassified we will meet some of God's communists. This story by
Trevor Loudon, an author, filmmaker and public speaker from New Zealand who for more
than 30 years has researched radical left, Marxist and terrorist movements and
their covert influence on mainstream politics. The Communist Party USA has a
Religion Commission, where socialist pastors, religious academics and
laypeople network to spread Marxist ideas through their churches, synagogues
temples and mosques. The United States is a deeply religious country; very early on
the CPUSA realized that if the United States was ever to be brought to
socialism, religion would have to be harnessed to the task. As the United
States is primarily a Christian country, the communists began to infiltrate
churches, seminaries and theological colleges even before the Bolshevik
Revolution of 1917. In congressional testimony in July 1953, former CPUSA
chairman Ben Gitlow described how Harry Ward, later a secret party
member, established the first communist front in America.
A few days later another high-ranking communist defector exposed Dr. Ward as a card-carrying communist and a powerful agent of influence for
the communist cause.
That defector, Manning Johnson,
also went on to reveal how the CPUSA's Soviet masters had shifted emphasis from
destroying religion to co-opting it.
According to Johnson, the CPUSA set about infiltrating American
Christianity at every level.
CPUSA members went back to their childhood churches; over time many gained
positions of influence. Virtue of this activity ramped up during the Vietnam
era; here are some examples: In Utah, Wayne Holley was a proud member of the
Mormon Church and founder of the Joe Hill Club of the CPUSA. Holly worked for
According to the CPUSA publication People's World.
In Chicago, Bill Hogan a CPUSA member and Catholic priest joined in the
national campaigns to end the US war in Vietnam, was a leader in Chicago clergy
and laity concerned an anti-war group and
according to his obituary. In
New York, CPUSA member Reverend Michael Morford was executive director of the
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship and a leader of the National
Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. During the Vietnam War era the
American communist movement split into Maoist, Trotskyist and Democratic
Socialist factions. The traditional CPUSA was dramatically reduced in numbers
however far-left infiltration of seminaries and theological schools
increased as thousands of young draft dodgers opted to promote socialism and
divinity schools rather than fight the communists in Vietnam. Today most of the
leftist divinity professors and religious leaders come out of the 1960
Maoist and democratic socialist movements rather than the CPUSA
per se, however the CPUSA did continue to make considerable progress and black
majority churches since the 1960s when the CPUSA began to
more deeply infiltrate the Democratic Party a larger emphasis was put on
recruiting black pastors. These pastors could be used to promote socialist
policies within the Democratic Party and to keep their congregations loyally
voting on the left. In April 2005 the CPUSA
reorganized its Religious Commission with a conference in Iowa. The CPUSA
People's World newspaper quoted several participants to give a flavour of the
event. Dianna Sowry, a school bus driver from Ohio said:
Let's take a look at today's influence. Today CPUSA is still very active in the church.
Here's a few examples: Edward Carson is the chairman of the Boston Communist
Party and was also an editor for the Christian Century Then & Now blog.
Michael Reale served on the CPUSA Religious Commission in 2004 to 2005
Reale told the CPUSA newspaper People's Weekly World they had a change to
People's World in 2004.
in 2010, Pierre Williams was secretary of the Religion Commission of the CPUSA
He received his Master of Divinity degree from Virginia Union
University in Richmond Virginia. He also completed pastoral residency at Johns
Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore Maryland and served as staff chaplain at Harbor
Hospital Baltimore. He is an ordained minister in the African Methodist
Episcopal Zion Church. Henry Milstein is a practicing Roman
Catholic and activist in several faith-based social justice organizations.
He served on the National Committee and the Religion Commission of the CPUSA.
Millstein holds a PhD in Jewish Studies from the University of California
Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union with a focus on Jewish-Christian
relations and has taught humanities and history of religion at Stanford UC
Berkeley, UC Davis and the Graduate Theological Union. Millstein is currently
programs manager at Islamic Networks Group in San Jose. His LinkedIn profile
States:
Reverend James Caldwell is one of two black pastors in the Houston
Communist Party branch. He is a graduate of Phillis Wheatley high school and
Texas Southern University School of Public Affairs. He also attended Dallas
Theological Seminary and has been an ordained minister for over 30 years
Reverend Tammy Yeager was in 2010 a chairperson of the Religion Commission of
the CPUSA. He has served on the Standing Commission on Anglican and International
Peace with Justice Concerns and the Advocacy Center of the Episcopal Church.
After a Christian upbringing in Iowa Yeager went on to study Russian and
history at the University of Iowa. The Vietnam War was raging then and he
became involved in the anti-war movement.
Yeager said in a 2015 interview in British local
magazine Westcombe News. Yeager also became chief organizer of the Communist
Party in Iowa but was drawn back to the church by communist pastor Jill
Dawes.
In 2011 Yeager was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church and in 2010 he took
on the responsibility of serving a small inner city church on the west side of
Chicago. He currently serves at a church in London and is a member of the
Communist Party of Britain. Communists want to be Gods on earth; their main
competition for the minds of men is revered religion. Attempts to brutally
suppress Christianity, Judaism and Islam in the early days of the Soviet
Union proved counterproductive. Infiltrating and twisting religion is
far more effective. This tactic has been applied all over the world and has made
huge inroads into the United States. Much of what is preached in today's American
churches has been influenced - if not dominated by - communist ideology posing
as religion. That's all we have for today; thank you very much for watching. Please
leave your comments below. What did you think of this story? Have you experienced
this yourself (that is communist infiltration of churches in America)? From
all of us here at Declassified, thank you for watching, and we'll see you soon.
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