The Opposite of Communism is Faith in God: Rep. Gallagher

WASHINGTON—Communism’s ultimate enemy is not capitalism nor democracy, but the faith in God, said Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.). “Because communism itself is not a political economic system. It’s a perverted inverse religion. It’s an all-consuming ideology imposed not by free belief, but by force and indoctrination,” he said in a speech at the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington. “Its churches are the labor camps, the gulags, the reeducation center; its confession booths are torture chambers; it’s priests are the censors, the propagandists, the secret police.” In terms of values, faith and communism stand on opposite ends. While communism seeks domination and abasement, he said, faith seeks love, the dignity of the individual, and the elevation of man’s soul....