 For Maritain, the best political order is one which recognizes the sovereignty of God. He rejects, therefore, not only fascism and communism, but all secular humanisms. Maritain objects that such views—particularly fascism and communism—are not only secular religions, but dehumanizing (Kinsella 2012) and, while he was a defender of American-style democracy, he is clearly not interested in combining his attachment to Christianity with capitalism. A theocentric humanism, Maritain would argue, has its philosophical foundation in the recognition of the nature of the human person as a spiritual and material being—a being that has a relation to God—and social and political institutions must therefore reflect this.