re: #199 Interesting Times

To me, it seems all the communist dictators did (Stalin, Mao, the Kim family) was replace conventional religion with their own cult of personality (i.e. god-like worship of a living person and their views, which even has a name in North Korea)

So…people in those countries weren’t killed in the name of atheism per sae, but for not following the official personality cult and all its derivatives.

To me it is all politics. I have always believed The Bible was another book of laws. The difference was there was an untouchable authority that could not be challenged behind the laws rather than a human.