Communism laughed at God, capitalism makes Him a tax-exempt business

The Boston Herald has a good editorial about Pope Benedict's visit to Brazil, and His Holiness' comment that neither communism nor capitalism were the solution to the world's ills.

We agree with the Herald's take on communism: not merely did it resemble religion, but for many years, it was "the opiate of the masses" with such bibles as Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto, Guerrilla Warfare, and many other tomes. Communism also had a branch of Catholicism called "liberation theology," which made Jesus not just a holy figure and the Son of God, but a Son of God who would be comfortable marching in the streets against any/all wars, and getting hauled off by the cops for interfering in military recruiting, releasing animals from their cages from research, hacking into banks and redistibuting money from billionaires and landing it into the bank accounts of the poor, or entering Wall Street and mistaking the men and women trading in polyester jackets and yelling "buy! sell!" for merchants trading in His Father's temple, and in turn smash trading boards, computers, and the like.

While we're at it, capitalism also has a religious component: many of the televangelists in the 1980s, such as Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Falwell (and today, Benny Hinn) turned the concept of preaching the tenets of the Bible and Scripture to a modest group of churchgoers into a multi-billion dollar business. For the mere sum of $500, a preacher would get his personal line to God and humbly (!) ask that He miraculously bring back your sickly Aunt Fay from the throes of cancer. Just like PBS, they also gave away gewgaws and books that had a markup that would give you whiplash...and you'd later find them at the cutout bins of your local bookstore for $5.