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To: tejek who wrote (160633)	2/11/2003 5:08:23 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575763

Ted, <Yes.......there was no religious fervor with any of the people in your group. For an example, Stalin tried to kill off the Russian Orthodox church. IMO there is a significant difference between those above and the religous nuts like OBL.> Of course Stalin, like other communists, would consider his regime to be "secular." But the truth is that the regime fostered much more of a religious fervor than most religions do today. Same thing with Saddam. You might consider him secular and non-religious, but he plasters his face and his image all over Iraq. That's a messianic complex to me. It doesn't matter whether the head of a personality cult is nominally Muslim, or Christian, or atheist, or Hindu, or whatever. The point is that these cults all revolve around the virtual worship of the central figure-head. Once you realize this, you'll know why democracy and the free market of ideas are the two biggest threats to these cults. Tenchusatsu P.S. - Yes, we are going off on a long tangent.