(June 26, 2013 at 11:18 am)ShadowWolf1986 Wrote:(June 26, 2013 at 11:10 am)max-greece Wrote: Hardly - Mao was a virtual Godhead of the state with every citizen expected to have his little red book with them at all times.
Mao was a man, not a god. Worshiping him as a god does not negate the fact that the Communist government of China was/is Atheistic.
True. But we have as much in common with Soviet communists because we're atheists as you do with members of the Taliban because you're a theist.