Editor's Note: R. Albert Mohler, Jr., is president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention and one of the largest seminaries in the world.
By R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Special to CNN
There are no atheists in dictatorships. The death of North Korea’s
“Dear Leader” Kim Jong il underlies a basic fact of earthly politics:
when a political regime denies any transcendent supernatural reality, it
deifies itself.
The communist regime that has been in
control of North Korea for over half a century is officially atheistic,
following the example of its first protector state, the Soviet Union.
Like the Russian communists, the North Koreans sought to expunge any
trace of Christianity or other religious faiths. But make no mistake,
this does not mean that the Pyongyang regime did not believe in worship.
To the contrary, the North Korean regime mandated worship, the worship of its own supreme leader.
As Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis explained, North Korea’s
founding dictator Kim Il Sung “was allowed to build a Stalinist state,
with its own cult of personality centered on himself, at just the time
when Khrushchev was condemning such perversions of Marxism-Leninism
elsewhere.” Keep Reading >>>
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