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Thread #121494 Message #2661023
Posted By: Ron Davies
20-Jun-09 - 02:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: shooting in DC? - U.S. Holocaust Museum
Subject: RE: BS: shooting in DC? - U.S. Holocaust Museum
"state religion" is exactly right. Which is why I pointed out, in another thread, that atheism has been a disaster for the world-- since it makes it so easy for the leader of the country to be deified. And since the leader of the country is then God, it's not so easy to contradict him--in anything.
See Stalin, Mao and Hitler--and now on a smaller scale North Korea. In Iran, however, which is not an atheist state. many people draw a distinction between Khomenei and Allah-- a distinction which is becoming more and more apparent these days.