(September 7, 2014 at 1:19 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 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
Did you read my prior posts. It is a myth that either Germany or the USSR got rid of all religion. They kept their one pet sect on a leash and allowed it to exist as long as it did not get out of line.
There issue was not god belief itself, their issue was ANY challenge to the state. Any type of one party rule will do that. They still had Churches in both Nazi Germany and the USSR.
