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The most famous aspect of Stalin's Russia was the Terror.   This grew from his paranoia and his desire to be absolute autocrat, and was enforced via the NKVD and public 'show trials'.   It developed into a centrally-enforced 'cult of Stalin-worship', and a terrifying system of labour camps - 'the gulag'.[/quote

In general: Cult of Personality.

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Throughout history, monarchs were almost always held in enormous reverence. Through the principle of the divine right of kings, rulers were said to hold office by the will of God. Imperial China (see Mandate of Heaven), ancient Egypt, Japan, the Inca, the Aztecs, Tibet, Thailand, and the Roman Empire (see imperial cult) are especially noted for redefining monarchs as god-kings.
The spread of democratic ideas in Europe and North America in the 18th and 19th centuries made it increasingly difficult for monarchs to preserve this aura. However, the subsequent development of photography, sound recording, film and mass production, as well as public education and techniques used in commercial advertising, enabled political leaders to project a positive image like never before. It was from these circumstances in the 20th century that the best-known personality cults arose.[/url]

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During the peak of their regimes, these leaders were presented as god-like and infallible. Their portraits were hung in homes and public buildings, with artists and poets legally required to produce only works that glorified the leader. Other leaders with such cults include Siad Barre of Somalia. The term cult of personality comes from Karl Marx's critique of the "cult of the individual"

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Political Religion. Essentially ideologically based cults that try to displace religions with their own living gods.

Pol Pot:
I've explained how my family suffered at his hand first-hand.

Let me tell you, this man was no Athiest. He worshiped the land and the uneducated and demand that everybody try to be as close to a simpleton as possible. No matter what you read, you can't remove the slave tattoos from my parents. Pol Pot was a retard who thought he was his god's greatest servant. He committed a bigger genocide (population percentage-wise) against his own people than Stalin and Hitler combined. Trust me though, my family knows the snow well. He killed a lot of us.

Mao:

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Mao's figure is largely symbolic both in China and in the global communist movement as a whole. During the Cultural Revolution, Mao's already glorified image manifested into a personality cult that influenced every aspect of Chinese life. Mao was regarded as the undisputed leader of China's working class in their 100-year struggle against imperialism, feudalism and capitalism, which were the three-evils in pre-1949 China since the Opium War. Even today, many Chinese people regard Mao as a God-like figure, who led the ailing China onto the path of an independent and powerful nation, whose pictures can expel the evil spirit and bad luck.

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The Cult of Mao proved vital in starting the Cultural Revolution. China's youth had generally been raised during the Communist era, which had taught them to idolize Mao. The youth also did not remember the immense starvation and suffering caused by Mao's Great Leap Forward, and their thoughts of Mao were generally positive. Thus, they were his greatest supporters. Their feelings for him were of such strength that many followed his urge to challenge all established authority.

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Lenin:
The preserved his body forever for all to see and worship... is there no further need of proof? Perhaps he himself was atheist and had the mantle of godhood thrust upon him by others then. Which in that case would mean he is indeed an accurate example of an absolute non-theist.

The "Other Athiest dictators":

Kim Jong-il/Kim Il Sung are worshiped as gods that created the world and nothing existed before Kim Il-Sung.

They even have a name for the religion as catalogued on this religious website Juche.

Nicolae Ceauşescu:

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Romania's political power structure in the 1980s, which was a cult of personality surrounding Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife, Elena Ceauşescu. Nicolae Ceauşescu rose to power in 1965, but by 1971 the regime had reasserted its Stalinist legacy in socioeconomic and cultural matters. Ceauşescu was increasingly portrayed by the Romanian media as a creative communist theoretician and political leader whose "thought" was the source of all national accomplishments. His tenure as president was known as the "golden era of Ceauşescu." In the 1980s, the personality cult was extended to other members of the Ceauşescu family, including his wife, Elena, who held a position of prominence in political life far exceeding protocol requirements. By the mid-1980s, Elena Ceauşescu's national prominence had grown to the point that her birthday was celebrated as a national holiday, as was her husband's.

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Robert Mugabe:

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Robert Mugabe, the founder of modern Zimbabwe and its prime minister and later its president since 1980, has clung desperately to power, utilizing his cult of personality as a potent weapon and tolerating no criticism. His devoted followers still accept, unquestioningly, everything he says, while critics are demonized as agents of British imperialism. Meanwhile, the country has devolved into desperate poverty and rampant inflation.

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Oops, sorry, he's a false Christian, not an Athiest.

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Except no one can quote a New Testament verse that says to kill unbelieers. Anti-Christian liars just love to claim it can be justified.

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IMHO, the Old Testament should probably just be removed from bibles with exception to the creation and the en commandments. It basically cuts out most of the stuff anybody would twist around, right?

Perhaps people need to take a break from this thread. Some need to cool their heads a little.
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U-huh, you don't think it'd be better to, you know... set a good example by not using insults?
Anyway, my earlier question is still unanswered.

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Oh, I could quote very very very many DIRECT insults against me by several anti-thiests. Here is only one very recent example.

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You, my friend, are a hypocrit in extreme, a proud and bold liar, an eloquent troll who has now resorted to cheap appeals to sympathy. an Ignorant and bigoted fraud with no sense of honour or dignity

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Anti-theists/Anti-Christians have always been free to insult me in any way they see fit. Moderators, it seems, only step in to defend the rights of the anti-theists not to have their ideas called moronic or delusional but it has seemingly been ok to call theistic ideas delusional or moronic and I could quote moderators of this board who have made that or similar statments.

Furthur, the majority of what the anti-Chrisitans post is only done to provoke.
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