The Gospel According to Stalin

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.