The immigrant’s rage and last refuge of faith

He might have got full marks from ideological parvenus for calling religion the opium of the masses. Karl Marx couldn’t comprehend the subtlety of God nor foresee the opiate inhumanity of the bloody, godless religion his philosophy created. “Evil be thou my Good”, said Satan in Milton’s Paradise Lost; for the spawn of Marx, the only good is the death of faith. The essential belief that all men are equal—an admirable thought—lies at the heart of communism. Unfortunately, all men are not equal. That is the logic behind religion. Because all men are not equal, they depend on the infinite mercy of god to overcome fate’s travails.

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