To continue believing in an ideology that has produced nothing but failure, misery, oppression, destruction, and death requires quite a bit of religious faith. And that’s exactly how it works in communist Cuba.
Yoe Suarez explains in Evangelical Focus:
The Cuban revolution as a religious faith
Cuban revolutionary totalitarianism proposes substitutes for God, the Messiah, faith, ideology and rituals.
That's how progressivism/Marxism works in the West, too. It's a cult based on the idea that a political/economic ideology can change human nature. Most religions don't even make that claim, especially Christianity, which teaches that we can be saved despite our natures through humility before God, repentance, and atonement for sins. And capitalism accounts for human nature through market forces at an individual level, when everyone can act within their own interests.
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