(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.
No - you are missing the point. Atheists don't do worship. We don't worship Gods or men who behave like they are Gods (with the associated capricious lack of respect for human life). By definition therefore, China was not atheist. It merely replaced God with Mao and then ascribed to him all sorts of miraculous brave actions he almost certainly never did.
