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Malcolm Muggeridge
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1. Malcolm Muggeridge
Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster) was an English journalist. Attracted to communism he went to the Soviet Union in the 1930's and became disillusioned, having at close range witnessed the mass starvation of ten million people by Stalin. He became strongly anti-communist.

After World War II, he became a Christian and Christian apologist. He helped bring Mother Teresa to the world's attention.

2. Famine
Attracted to communism, Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster) traveled to Russia as a journalist in the 1930's. He ended up writing about Stalin's famine in the Ukraine and Black Sea area that starved about 10 million people to death in less than two years. As a result, he lost employment and started writing novels.

On the other hand, Walter Duranty, writing for the New York Times, wrote a series of articles that denied that a famine even existed. For such work, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for journalism. Muggeridge later called Walter Duranty "the greatest liar I have met in journalism".

In 2008, two years after his death, on the 75th anniversary of the famine, he (and Gareth Jones) were awarded the Ukrainian Order of Freedom.

3. Christ as liberator
All other freedoms, once won, soon turn into new servitude. Christ is the only liberator whose liberation lasts forever. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

4. Socialism and man

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

Another name for "socialism" is "humanism". That is, man following man's laws rather than man following God's laws.
A "religion" can be defined as a "belief system based on faith". Nothing is something. If one gets rid of all religion, one is left with what is often called "secular humanism". That is, a "religion" in and of itself based on human "opinion", "glory", "law" and "righteousness".

Information sign More: Nothing is something
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5. Kingdom of Heaven
The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

6. Joy
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries, I am beholden to Jesus. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

7. In the beginning
In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

8. Change
For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

9. Believing lies
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

10. Dead fish
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

11. Darkness
Shades of gray?

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

12. Home
The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

13. Doubt
The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

14. News
All new news is old news happening to new people. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

15. Artists
In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

16. Rich and happy
I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

17. Seeing through the eyes
Book: Seeing through the eye Trapezoid Illusion Triangle edge

Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster) liked the part of William Blake's Songs of Innocence that goes as follows. "This life's dim windows of the soul / Distort the Heavens from Pole to Pole / And lead you to believe a lie / When you see with, not thro' the eye.".

The Bible says "hear the word of God" or "read the word of God". One can be more easily deceived with "watch the word of God" as in a video.

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