Creation Moment 1/13/2026 - Pol Pot and Marx: The “scientific justification”

The heart is deceitful above all things, 

and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Jeremiah 17:9

"The Khmer Rouge promised a classless, agrarian society and sought to establish this utopia through a brutal campaign of torture, mass

starvation, and forced labor. They emptied out the cities, demanding that men, women, and children flee, even the sick and the lame, into the countrysides. They slaughtered anyone considered elite, including teachers, scholars, historians, even those who wore glasses or expressed compassion for others.
Their radical version of Marxism taught that cities were corrupt, intellectuals were evil, religion was subversive, and that family loyalties must give way to loyalty to the ruling party, the Angkar. 

In true communist fashion, 

*money, 

*private property, and

 *religion were abolished. 

There was no freedom of speech, freedom of worship, or freedom of assembly. 

Muslims, Buddhists, and Christians were put to death. 

The slaughter was systematic, where people were tortured into false confessions and sent to the rural communities where they were either forced into labor or executed. 

These places became known as “The Killing Fields.”
Fifty years was not that long ago. Pol Pot learned his radical Marxism in Paris, France, then exported it to Cambodia. The utter ruthlessness of the Khmer Rouge is hard to imagine.
One survivor, a doctor in Phnom Penh who was forced to the labor camps, said this: “In the eye of communism, a human being has no value until he served the political party … we don’t have the right to talk or even laugh.”

Compare this to the famous lines of America’s Declaration of Independence that “we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

One of Pol Pot’s core principles was to create “state atheism” in his homeland. This rationalized his genocide. This was also a core principle of Karl Marx, and of all communists since. 

Marx considered Darwin’s theory the “scientific justification” for his views.

Evolution is part of the package deal of Marxism, which (as Dr John

Wise has explained), is an outgrowth of the Hegelian Dialectic. To get rid of Hegel’s concept of “Spirit,” Marx inverted it, dubbing it “dialectical materialism.”
Materialism and atheism are part and parcel of the communism that has turned, and continues to turn, many countries into brutal hell holes today. Look what it did to Venezuela, Cuba, China, and North Korea. If people are mere pawns of the State, they have no intrinsic value." 

CEH