Selden Chapin

thumb| Selden Chapin (September 19, 1899 – March 26, 1963) was a career foreign service officer and United States diplomat. Quotes With the political opposition well in hand, they went after the religious groups. Now I should like to make it very clear that attack on religion is not so much a matter of conflict between church and state as between the secular religion of Marxist materialism and the traditional religion of the churches based on moral and spiritual values. It is an attack on Protestant, Catholic, Jew, and Moslem alike, and it isn't just an attack on the churches, but on all free institutions and human freedoms. It is materialism versus morality. It is violence and treachery versus order and humanity. Communist morality has been expressed in these words of Lenin, "everything is moral which is necessary for the annihilation of the old exploiting social order, and for uniting the proletariat." "Force and Freedom", in The Department of State Bulletin, vol. 20, no. 521 (June 26, 1949) p. 821. On the Communization of Hungary in 1947 External links Category:1899 births Category:1963 deaths Category:Ambassadors of the United States Category:People from Pennsylvania