You see it is very hard to be both.

It is similar to the Holy Roman Empire, something that may have had its roots in Rome, but was far from "holy" as Christians now believe while singing "Holy, Holy, Holy..."

Marxism, while actually described in the New Testament (Acts), at its core denies the belief in ANY god, be he (or she) be called Allah, Jehovah, The God of Israel, The Father of the Lord's Prayer, Jesus, I mean any and every god save the overwhelming power of masses. Remember, "Workers of the World, Unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains?" The people will achieve some kind of "heaven on earth" run by "the people" for "the people."

True perfect Marxism has no government, and no leadership. It exists as some kind of heaven on earth where everyone works to provide for the common good, regardless of what that common good is. Yes, you need a dictatorship to impose the masses' will on everyone else, but that is supposed to fall away, eventually.

The problem is that once you get the masses all worked up against the present leaders, and that someone rises up to direct those masses towards the eventual goal - how does the leader know when to step down? When the people throw the leader out? And guess who takes over after the coup?

Islam is another of man's attempt to bring some idea of heaven to earth.

The "Prophet" determined how people of Arabia should live so they could share the wealth and live in harmony. Interesting that along the way, this "pure" idea required people to force adherence to the life of Islam and to execute those who didn't follow the rules. To ensure everyone followed the rules, leaders had to arise from the masses.

In both systems, the people who are leading the masses to the great awakening of truth and harmony must always be held in higher esteem. The language used to honor and bless the Prophet is very similar to that which was used to describe Lenin and Stalin.

Read their biographies and they are all ruthless killers of those who do not agree with them 100%, and it doesn't seem to matter to the true believers.

In both systems, the need for leaders and even government is supposed to fade away as the believers practice the belief more fully, and in both systems, it appears that you can tell the masses anything to get them to follow you because the end, which is greatly desired, justifies the means of gaining power.

Americans rejected this pure sharing of everything back in the early Massachusetts Colony. They found out that while some believed in heaven on earth, those people also believed that they should sit around and discuss theology, rather than go out in the field and hoe the corn. They were about to starve, when the leaders figured out that each person had to have something personal to work for if the colony was going to succeed.

Communal living always sounds so good. Unfortunately, we are only human.

Most people, no matter who they are, have always wanted to either be the leader, or follow a leader. Its wired in our DNA, it was how God made us.

So we come to the present occupant of the White House.

He sure acts like he is a closet Muslim, after all if he is, he is allowed to lie about his beliefs if it lets him take and expand control in the name of Allah.

But Allah doesn't allow Abortion, homosexuality, adultery, it doesn't allow drinking alcohol, doesn't allow many of the things that Mr. Obama seems to embrace, or at least his supporters do. Read the Koran, murder is almost immediately punishable by death, ask any democrat about following that part of Sharia Law.

If I had to guess, I would say that the President, along with most of the present administration are truly State Socialists - they believe that they are so much smarter than the rest of us, that they should be the final word on everyone's actions and control everyone else's activities in public, at home, in short everywhere. They want a command economy, where the gracious leader commands and factories produce.

Their goal is some kind of "heaven on earth" where outcomes are always equal, even though opportunities and the people taking them are not.

Oh yes, and THEY will always be in control.