That would explain their hostility to the historical religions (particularly Christianity in the West, but sincere Judaism too) – the State cannot bear a competing source of moral authority. Thus rendering the 1st Amendment largely useless, since we’ve returned to an official (State sanctioned) font of Truth.

Before I hadn’t really understood how Communism could be a “religion”, except to the extent they believed in mystical things (like Love scaling beyond Dunbarr’s Number). Now I get it. Religion is the moral authority, and government is the police power. A never should they be joined, or else we will be forced to repeat the Age of religious wars, and be forced to study the lessons of history again.

Heh. I guess that makes me a Christian after all, for lack of closer fitting alternatives. Which readers of an earlier thread will no doubt be amused by.