The Bible was attacked as a means of bringing up slaves not free men in a broadcast by Radio Moscow, which also termed the Bible a “monument of the ancient world, full of contradictions, naive concepts, fabrications and distortions.”
The announcer retailed the tribulations of the people of the Bible and then noted that the prophets had promised freedom and happiness when the Messiah came. But, he continued, “the Messiah has not come.”
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