A Warning from a Former Communist | Godfather Politics: As I was getting ready for work yesterday morning, I was watching the 1949 film The Red Danube. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, a very young and trim Angela Landsbury (Murder She Wrote), Ethel Barrymore, and Janet Leigh. Pidgeon plays British Col. Michael “Hooky” Nicobar who is assigned to assist in monitoring possible activities against the Allied nations and repatriating Soviet citizens living in the British zone of Vienna. He is an atheist. He reminded me of today’s breed of New Atheists. He used their same arguments. As the Bible says, “That which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun” (Eccles. 1:9).
One man is so desperate not go back to Russia that he kills himself. “Hooky” finally comes to realize that if there is no God, then what the Soviets are doing to former citizens who had fled the oppression of Communism cannot be protested. He is a soldier who must do his duty no matter what the consequences. Given atheistic assumptions, there are no moral consequences one way or another. After some soul searching, wise words from Ethel Barrymore’s character, and thinking through the implications of atheism, he realizes that he can and must oppose Communism even it means an end to his military career and pension.
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