Whittaker Chambers pointed out that communism was not a novel ideology. “It is not new,” wrote Chambers. “It is, in fact, man’s second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil: ‘Ye shall be as gods.'” Chambers called communism “the great alternative faith of mankind . . . the vision of Man without God.” It comes as no surprise, then, that adherents of that alternative faith should make pride, the original sin of mankind, their paramount virtue.
Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, by Michael Knowles, p 149