Conservative Christians in the 19th vs. 20th centuries

In the nineteenth century, conservative Christians warned of the dangers of communism and socialism. Some, such as C.F.W. Walther of the Missouri Synod Lutherans, went so far in his principled objection to socialism even as to condemn the participation of workers in trade unions. Among the reasons they gave for opposing socialism was that the church itself offered a stronger and more effective critique of the social and economic injustices of the world.

In the twentieth century, conservative Christians warned of the dangers of the church being engaged in critique of the social and economic injustices of the world. Among the reasons they gave for opposing the critique was that communists and socialists started out upset with those injustices as well and ended up taking stronger far more violent means to address them.


Give me that ol' time religion!