comparing religion and communism

We all know that communism and religion dont go together but both have few similarities between them.

Both communists and theists shut them selves from the out side world. Both think they are the elite of the society and feel the burden of saving the society from disaster and promise harmony.

Both maintain the same strategy “either you are my friend or you are my foe” . No one can be neutral. They theists of a particular religion, atheists, agnostics and people who follow other religions are enemies. For communists who ever does not preach communism are capitalists, for them these are the only two political structures. A person should be a communist or a capitalist there is no alternative.

Both of them feel that the who ever does not subscribe to their philosophy are the problem makers. In the case of religion it says the harmony is disturbed due to other religions or evil which does not follow religion. In case of communists they believe that all problems of the world including pollution is due to persons who are not communists.

If we got a problem both will give us similar answer without giving any details. The standard answer from theists is “God will take care of it” and communists will say “System will take care of it”

Both will become mum if we talk about crude facts which are against them. Theists make faces when you explain miracle of god with a simple physics rule and communists dont like to be questioned on the collapse of USSR.

Both try to ignore modern developments. Theists wont talk about recent scientific developments and communists hate to talk about political developments.

Both wont prefer to be questioned. So both deny the right to express.

If we start practicing any of the two, according to both we dont have to blame our selves for our misery. According to both of them, our present state of life is not because of our deeds. According to religion if you are suffering, its because you did many wrong things in the previous life. According to communism, you are suffering because of capitalists.

According to both of them, we have to go through initial suffering to get the ultimate happiness. Religions asks us to fast, walk on the fire etc etc to get nirvana. And communism ask us to go through dictatorship to attain communism. Interestingly both wont reveal how long we need to go through the suffering to get the ultimate happiness.

Both of them advocate distruction of family. When religion says family is a constraint to get nirvana and sex is a sin. According to communist manifesto family is a capitalistic concept so must be abolished.

Both extreme theists and extreme communists wont like to live in the society. The extremists of religion prefer to sit in the shrine or in himalayas. And extremists of communists would like to sit in library or in the jungle. Irritatingly both of them talk about how the society should be.