SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION 



time, where formerly protestant or atheist rulers 

 are showing an ever more pronounced willingness 

 to enter the fold of the catholic church in ex- 

 change for the services of this church against the 

 rising revolution of the modern proletariat. 



Whenever the rulers are ready for this step, 

 some great miracle happens. About 1,600 years 

 before Constantine, Moses had suddenly seen a 

 great light in the bush. He saw it several times 

 later, when new property relations demanded im- 

 peratively a transformation of the persistent tribal 

 customs into " laws " more in keeping with the 

 interests of the hierarchy. He had not been in 

 close touch with the Egyptian princes and their 

 priestcraft without learning from them. Now it 

 was Constantine's turn to see a great light. Saul 

 had seen the same thing before he became Paul, 

 only for a different purpose. The new Saul be- 

 came, not a Paul, but a Judas, and the Judases in 

 the Christian movement were lavishly rewarded 

 by him with grants of land and money. The 

 farce was inscribed " In hoc signo vinces" and 

 presto, the Christian religion became the church 

 of the ruling class. The Christian proletariat had 

 played with fire and got burned. But it was the 

 best they could do under the prevailing historical 

 conditions. They repeated the same mistake 



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