[Cavernio]

What Devonin said.

You're happy to learn about what China's like as examples of what communism really is, yet ignoring everyone who says its not communist. Strict laws to keep the peace does not mean its communist. As to your questions about Korea, neither South nor North Korea is communist. South Korea elects a president, North Korea is a dictatorship. If you want to call dictatorships communist, well then of course they suck.

Secondly, the definition of communism does not necessarily mean the state controls everything. Its the people who control things. Once a state forcibly takes control, then communism no longer exists.

The people who I've talked to who seem to hold worst views of communism come from eastern Europe, probably people who've lived in the USSR and the aftermath of it.

As to belief in God and communism, the 2 really have nothing whatsoever to do with each other. Whatever your dad is spewing is probably a specific example of some dictator's ideals which were then forced upon that country, or something.