And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in. And she said, Yea, for so much. And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things. There was an attempt at equal distribution of wealth which is at the heart of Communist theory. In the above Bible story the Bible god was the KGB who carried out the dirty work of dealing with the nonconformists.
Tyranny needs fear, whether it's tyranny of the mind and spirit or of the person.
Our spiritual lives need to catch up with the advances society have made in science and technology.