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Although Stalin's USSR didn't technically believe in a deity, it still has many religious elements: * Violently throwing out competing religions, like Christia
by NTH 14y ago
Although Stalin's USSR didn't technically believe in a deity, it still has many religious elements:
* Violently throwing out competing religions, like Christianity
* Belief in a single god-king (Stalin)
* Total faith in the power of communism as the most perfect solution to the world's problems
* Harsh punishments handed out to those who question the orthodoxy (gulags)
* Obsessed with submission of the individual before an institution
Blind, violent faith in bad ideas could reasonably be blamed for a vast amount of the world's problems.
- sukuriant 14y agos/faith/{dedication, ferver}; and even if faith is an acceptable term there, faith != religion.
- CamperBob2 14y agoAgain: same bug, different exploit.
- sukuriant 14y agopassion?
- CamperBob2 14y agoSomething like that. Look carefully at the roots of the word "passion." It involves suffering and sacrifice.
- NTH 14y agomaybe not "passion" per se, but the bug is people's willingness to believe things on insufficient evidence because it gives them a sense of purpose or binds them to a bigger group.