Are You Prepared for the Communist Takeover? by R. C. VanLandingham

By R. C. VanLandingham, Crisis Magazine, May 28, 2021

R.C. VanLandingham is a novelist. His most recent work is Peter Puckett and the Amulet of Eternity. Find out more rcvanlandingham.com.

My wife and I used to watch a show called Doomsday Preppers on Nat Geo. Each episode followed a family preparing for a civilization-ending event such as the collapse of the world economic system or the eruption of a super volcano. These “preppers” accumulated and stored all the essentials needed to physically survive just about any crisis. I guarantee none of them sweated the Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020 or the recent gas crisis. They were prepared. Materially at least.

As Catholics, and Christians more generally, our primary concern should not be on our material needs such as food, water, fuel, etc., but on our spiritual needs.  ….