Propaganster wrote:
See a pattern? The cult of personality they built around themselves were directly inspired by Roman Catholicism.
I see yet further evidence of the widereaching influence of religion on humankind, so again, since religion pretty much touches everything regarding the human life experience it becomes no more relevant than if it didn't exist at all. The sun may as well be blamed for war and genocide. Obviously not everyone will share my opinion but to me it makes no sense to attribute cruelty and violence of a political leader of group to anything other than people and the worse sides of human nature, which exists independent of religion and not because of it. But to respond to the cases of those dictators specifically, they all have a background that involves religion but clearly their personal experience and outlook made them denounce it, they embraced atheism and that atheism has to be acknowledged in who they were, it cannot be denied simply because of their religious past. But as I say, not that I see religious or atheist belief either way as relevant factors.

I guess that would depend on who does the dying and who does the killing, and why?
To the question 'Is Democracy worth dying for?'
My answer is ''Yes.''
To have someone worth dying for I accept, but democracy? And all the more ironic and tragic when people die and the result is actually less freedom.