Hitchens made the very salient point that ALL totalitarian societies are structured along religious lines. Destruction of the established church, eliminating the clergy and making traditional worship a punishable crime are simply replaced by slavish (literally) adoration of the Leader and the cult of personality.
Anyone who doesn't think that Stalinist Russia or the nightmare that North Korea has been for the last few decades aren't religious societies is accepting the short end of a bet.
Boru
Anyone who doesn't think that Stalinist Russia or the nightmare that North Korea has been for the last few decades aren't religious societies is accepting the short end of a bet.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
