Staff Reports
Socialism is not merely an economic theory; at its core it embraces a worldview that has traditionally rejected the existence of God and the moral order He provides. From Marx’s famous dismissal of religion to Lenin’s insistence that religion is an obstacle to class consciousness, this atheistic current runs through the movement’s DNA and explains why it so often produces moral and social rot. When you remove God from public life, you replace transcendent accountability with the raw power of the state—and history shows what follows.
Look at the Soviet Union: a regime that adopted state atheism, attacked the churches, and elevated the party above conscience, and it ultimately imploded under the weight of its own contradictions. The collapse of the USSR was not a mystery; decades of centralized control, repression, and economic mismanagement hollowed out a civilization that had dismissed God and private initiative. The result was economic collapse, shortages, and the unraveling of societies that once aspired to greatness.
China’s own tragic experiments with revolutionary socialism produced one of the deadliest famines in human history when ideology trumped common sense and human dignity. The Great Leap Forward’s crusade to remake society by fiat cost millions of lives and showed how collectivist dogma, divorced from moral restraints and market realities, becomes a death sentence for the most vulnerable. Those deaths are not abstractions; they are the human cost of trying to engineer Heaven on Earth without God.
Closer to our time, Venezuela stands as a sobering warning to Americans who flirt with socialist policies that ignore human nature. A generation of Venezuelans has been driven into exile by shortages of food and medicine and by the collapse of civil order under regime control of the economy, proving that redistribution without production simply redistributes suffering. The humanitarian toll—millions fleeing for survival—should sober any patriot who values family and faith.
Nor is this rejection of faith merely theoretical; modern authoritarian regimes that embrace socialist principles actively crush religious life when it conflicts with party loyalty. From forced registrations to raids on house churches and campaigns to “sinicize” religion, state control over belief is a feature, not a bug, of regimes that prioritize ideological conformity over conscience. Where the state becomes the ultimate arbiter of truth, the church and the family are weakened and society pays the price.
This is not an academic debate for the comfortably indifferent; it is a moral and political crossroads. When public policy treats God as optional and elevates technocrats and bureaucrats to the role of moral architects, Americans lose the institutions that teach responsibility, generosity, and virtue. Socialism promises equality by stripping away the very spiritual foundations that bind communities together, and the consequences fall heaviest on the poor and powerless.
Hardworking Americans know better than to trade faith and freedom for utopian experiments that end in suffering. We built this country on the idea that rights are endowed by our Creator and that liberty, markets, and local communities—not distant planning committees—produce prosperity and human flourishing. It’s time to remind our neighbors that prosperity requires moral ballast, not the empty promises of state engineers.
If we love our country and our fellow citizens, we will reject the siren song of socialism and defend the institutions that sustain a moral order: family, church, and free enterprise. The choice is stark and urgent—do we want a future rooted in faith, responsibility, and liberty, or a future where the state replaces God and the people pay the bill? Patriots choose God, work, and freedom every time.
