^* It is important to note that the people who offer this excuse for Leftist doctrines never offer that excuse for Christians who committed evil in the name of Christianity. The Left attributes evil committed in Christendom to Christianity (though none of the immense good that has emanated from within the Christian world is attributed to Christianity), while the evils committed by Marxists in the name of Marxism are dismissed as perversions of Marxism, and the evils committed by Muslims in the name of Islam are dismissed as perversions of Islam. Only Christians, Americans, and capitalists who commit evil are true to their Christianity, true to their imperialist and racist doctrines, and true to capitalism.