"He has been described as a great moral leader who was “candid, fair and honest…no one was afraid of him and everybody trusted him.”
He was “leading his people down new and unfamiliar avenues…His brown eye was exceedingly wise and gentle. A child would like to sit on his lap and a dog would sidle up to him.”
He had a tremendous “capacity for feeling” and was a “good natured man of principle” and “kindly geniality.”
As Paul Johnson, author of Modern Times wrote, the authors of such tributes included writer H.G. Wells; Hewlett Johnson, the Dean of Canterbury; an American ambassador, Joseph El Davis; Emil Ludwig, the famous biographer; physicist J.D. Bernal and the Chilean writer Pablo Neruda.
The man receiving the unctuous accolades was the tyrant Joseph Stalin.
We should not be terribly surprised.
The Left has always preferred Herod to Jesus.
Leftists also have always preferred to substitute their own messianic figures in place of the Son of Man, leaders whose ideology promises redemption of society and the eradication of societal ills through fundamental transformation that includes eradication of undesirables..."
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