No amount of Failures will ever prove Success is Impossible.

That is my opinion as an optimist, and it's why it's so annoying how often discissions about Communism in a Facebook group just come down to the Anti-Communist treating every failure of every ML State as the ultimate trump card.  I have no interest in defending or excusing them since no matter how I feel about them our objectives for the future should be to build something new.

It's doubly annoying when it happens in specifically a Christian group, all the Christian Facebook Groups I'm in are espousing fairly niche currently outside the mainstream forms of Christianity.  So we should all agree that no Church serving as the mainstream majority religion of it's Nation has ever succeeded in being what Jesus intended The Church to be, if not I feel you have fairly impure notions of what The Church is supposed to be.

So if all those failures don't debunk Christianity then the same should go for Communism.  And so when I start arguing to you that The Bible supports Communism, ranting about all the people Mao killed is NOT a Sola Scriptura Response.  The failures of Atheist Communism certainly do not debunk Christian Communism.

And claiming there have been no successful Communist Societies is predicated on limiting that discussion to States founded upon Marxism, more specifically in fact Leninism.  It ignores the existence of Anarcho-Communist societies that have existed in many forms both Christian like the Anabaptists and Secular.

Capitalism has incredibly obvious and unavoidable conflicts with Christian values.  So The Christian response to the failures of Secular Communist Societies should be how can we use Christian values to avoid repeating those failures.