(December 19, 2011 at 12:39 am)Chuck Wrote: It has often been said that communism wasn't strictly atheist because they often resort to cult of personalities aound Karl Marx, vladmir lenin and the current leader almost as smothering as the cult of cult of Jesus. But in other communist countries, there were at least no direct insistence that the leader was divine rather than human.
In north Korea, kim il song, the founder of the current Kim dynasty, is actually said to have been born from no mortal woman's womb, but descended directly onto a sacred mountain at the border between china and Korea upon a ray of heavenly light.
North Korea's ruling Juche ideology is almost as full of shit as Christianity and Islam.
Yes, in North Korea, the Great Leader was their religion... that is why the people there are not inclined to rise up. Rising up against their "god" would be the ultimate heresy...
