Two books that I am reading now...
One is a biography of Vasily Grossman.
Vasily Grossman and the Twentieth Century, by Alexandra Popoff, on Kindle. It has a quote from Grossman's last novel,
Everything Flows:
Stalinists preached loyalty only to the Party and demanded “thoughtless obedience” from all Soviet citizens: even children were expected to denounce their parents as class enemies. In the eyes of the Soviet state, informers were model citizens. Grossman shows a young Party follower’s typical apprenticeship, designed to extinguish reason and turn the individual into an obedient tool: “ ‘Remember,’ his mentors used to tell him, ‘that you have neither father nor mother, neither brothers nor sisters. You have only the Party.’ ”
The other is The Jewish Annotated New Testament.
Matthew 10:37:
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; ad whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Luke 14:26:
Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.
Draw your own conclusions.
