Faith and Freedom Conference: Why Communism Hates Christianity
Speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s 2026 Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday, President Trump called communism the “most serious threat to our Country since its existence 250 years ago,” warning that “ruthless Communists will attack all Religions but, in particular, Christianity. They always do. All Communist Countries attack Religions violently.”
From Moscow to Beijing to Phnom Penh, every communist government that has come to power has moved against religion as a matter of doctrine.
Opening his remarks, Trump declared that both America and religion are “back like never before,” citing the creation of the White House Faith Office. He traced America’s faith tradition from the Jamestown settlers, who “got off their ship, raised up a cross, and bowed down to the Lord in prayer,” through the Minutemen at Lexington and Concord.
Trump described the prior administration as having carried out “a reign of persecution and repression against Christians,” citing the FBI targeting of Catholics, the jailing of pro-life activists for praying, and the discharge of military members over religious beliefs.
He pointed to the recent U.S. strike on Nigeria as evidence of his administration protecting Christians abroad, saying “I am saving Christians throughout the World, even though we are not in those various Countries, by hitting these Terrorists violently and hard.”
On communism, he characterized the Zohran Mamdani-backed winners in this week’s New York City elections not as socialists but as “hardcore, godless communists” and warned that communism, while easy to sell with promises of free rent, food, and housing, ends in squalor, collapse, and death, “Third World in every way.”
Trump is correct that Communism hates Jesus. To understand why communism targets Christianity specifically, the conflict must be understood as structural. Communism requires the state to be the supreme authority in all aspects of life, economic, social, moral, and ideological. Christianity directly contradicts that by placing God above the state.
The first point of conflict is party supremacy. In both Russia and China, a constitution exists on paper, but the Party is paramount over the constitution itself. By that same logic, the Party cannot accept citizens who place Jesus, or any God, above the Party.
Loyalty compounds the problem. Christianity demands a higher allegiance than any earthly government. “Render unto Caesar” explicitly limits Caesar’s authority, and communist states cannot tolerate that limit. Moral authority follows from the same root. The Church provides an independent framework for right and wrong that the Party did not create and cannot control. If people derive their understanding of truth from Scripture rather than the state, the Party loses its monopoly on defining reality.
Churches also organize people outside state structures. Any independent organization, even a prayer group, is a potential node of resistance, which is why communist states move to absorb or destroy all independent institutions. Karl Marx called religion the opium of the people precisely because it gives the poor meaning and consolation independent of material conditions, making them harder to mobilize through class struggle alone.
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