The Power and the Glory examines two opposed ideologies i.e. religion and communism from a different view point. ‘Power’ represents the state and ‘Glory’ represents the church in the novel. If the state stands for secularism, church stands for religion: both are contradictory in terms as one upholds materialism and the other speaks of a metaphysical power. Being a humanist Graham Greene is averse to anything which ignores the reality of human feelings. So, he lets the two ideologies unfold and ultimately points at the areas that go against human beings. For him, the priest in the novel is not a sinner if he takes whisky and is a father of a daughter. Similarly, communism is unwelcome to him, despite its human interest, if it involves violence and bloodshed. For Greene humans and their existence come first than any other philosophy.