Counterfeited Christianity & the Lie of Fiducia Supplicans, by Robert Lazu Kmita

By Robert Lazu Kmita, Remnant Columnist, Romania, The Remnant, Jan. 9, 2024

The fake communist world

In Romania under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu, the concepts of “surrogate” or “substitute” had become commonplace. The lack of basic goods – especially food and clothing – was something ordinary. The long lines in front of the stores were the only constant thing you would see everywhere. Against widespread poverty, the only defense ordinary people had at their disposal was humor. That’s all that remained for them. One of the most well-known jokes from that period goes like this:

A ‘comrade’ (the term used by the communists as an alternative to the bourgeois ‘mister’ or the aristocratic ‘sir’) sat in a line in front of a grocery store. Eager to know what products they were waiting for, he asked the person in front. He didn’t know. He asked the next person. He didn’t know either. He went from person to person asking the same thing. To his astonishment, no one knew what they were waiting for. Finally, he asked the ‘comrade’ who was first in line: ….

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