THE SMASHING OF RELIGIOUS GROUPS

You must know that until recent times the complete subject of mental derangement,
whether so light as simple worry or so heavy as insanity, was the sphere of activity of the
church and only the churchTraditionally in civilized nations and barbaric ones the priest- hood alone had in complete
charge the mental condition of the citizen. As a matter of great concern to the
psychopolitician this tendency still exists in every public in the Western World and
scientific inroads into this sphere has occurred only in official and never in public
quarters.
The magnificent tool welded for us by Wundt would be as nothing if it were not for
official insistence in civilized countries that "scientific practices" be applied to the
problem of the mind. Without this official insistence or even if it relapsed for a moment,
the masses would grasp stupidity for the priest, the minister, the clergy when mental
condition came in question. Today in Europe and America "scientific practices" in the
field of the mind would not last moments if not enforced entirely by officialdom.
It must be carefully hidden that the incidence of insanity has increased only since these
"scientific practices" were applied. Great remarks must be made of "the pace of modern
living" and other myths as the cause of the increased neurosis in the world. It is nothing
to us what causes it if anything does. It is everything to us that no evidence of any kind
shall be tolerated afoot to permit the public tendency toward the church its way. If given
their heads, if left to themselves to decide, independent of official- dom, where they
would place their deranged loved ones, the public would choose religious sanatoriums
and would avoid as if plagued places where "scientific practices" prevail.
Given any slightest encouragement, public support would swing on an instant all mental
healing into the hands of the churches. And there are Churches waiting to receive it,
clever churches. That terrible monster the Roman Catholic Church still dominates mental healing heavily throughout the Christian world and their well
schooled priests are always at work to turn the public their way. In the field of pure
healing the Church of Christ Science of Boston, Massachusetts excells in commanding
the public favour and operates many sanatoriums. All these must be swept aside. They
must be ridiculed and defamed and every cure they advertise must be asserted as a hoax.
A full fifth of a psychopolitician's time should be devoted to smashing these threats. Just
as in Russia we had to destroy, after many many years of the most arduous work, the
Church, so we must destroy all faiths in nations marked for conquest.
Insanity must be made to hound the footsteps of every priest and practitioner. His best
results must be turned to jibbering insanities no matter what means we have to use.
You need not care what effect you have upon the public. The effect you care about is the
one upon officials. You must recruit every agency of the nation marked for slaughter into
a foaming hatred of religious healing. You must suborne district attorneys and judges into
an intense belief as fervent as an ancient faith in God that Christian Science or any other religious practice which might devote itself to mental healing is vicious, bad, insanitycausing,
publicly hated and intolerable.
You must suborne and recruit any medical healing organiza- tion into collusion in this
campaign. You must appeal to their avarice and even their humanity to invite their cooperation
in smashing all religious healing and thus, to our end, care of the insane. You
must see that such societies have only qualified Communist-indoctrines as their advisers
in this matter. For you can use such societies. They are stupid and stampede easily. Their
cloak and degrees can be used quite well to mask any operation we care to have masked.
We must make them partners in our endeavour so that they will never be able to crawl
from beneath our thumb and discredit us.
We have battled in America since the century's turn to bring to nothing any and all
Christian influences and we are succeeding. While we today seem to be kind to the
Christian remember we have yet to influence the "Christian world" to our ends. When
that is done we shall have an end of them everywhere. You may see them here in Russia as trained apes. They do not know their tether is long only until
the apes in other lands have become unwary.
You must work until "religion" is synonymous with "insanity". You must work until the
officials of city, county and state govern- ments will not think twice before they pounce
upon religious group as public enemies.
Remember, all lands are governed by the few and only pretend to consult with the many.
It is no different in America. The petty official, the maker of laws alike can be made to
believe the worst. It is not necessary to convince the masses. It is only necessary to work
incessantly upon the official, using personal defamations, wild lies, false evidences and
constant propaganda to make him fight for you against church or against any practitioner.
Like the official the bona-fide medical healer also believes the worst if it can be shown to
him as dangerous competition. And like the Christian, should be seek to take from us any
right we have gained, we shall finish him as well.
We must be like the vine upon the tree. We use the tree to climb and then, strangling it,
grow into power on the nourish- ment of its flesh.
We must strike from our path any opposition. We must use for our tool any authority that
comes to hand. And then at last, the decades sped, we can dispense with all authority save
our own and triumph in the greater glory of the Party.