Religion

The Beer Postulate makes a great point:

I used to think that the best way to argue about evolution and creation (now intelligent design) was to bring up the huge body of evidence that strings together the pieces of geologic history that we have pictures of through fossils, ice cores, pollen records etc. This is almost entirely a moot point. Those who choose (I should say that I am emphatically not one of them) to believe in young earth Creationism, do so out of an article of faith. This is not entirely different from the article of faith that sustains those who believe in anything that is radically different from the world we can empirically observe: i.e. socialists, anarchists, animal rights activists, radical environmentalists. All of these groups base their world view on assumptions that cannot be tested or simply do not match observed phenomenon.

Absolutely. There is no reason that there should be a single self-professed communist in this world. Collectivism has never worked. Never. And it's not for a lack of trying -- examples of failure are legion. Yet people keep pushing it. It isn't the result of reasoned thought, it's simply faith. Godless communism is almost a religion itself.