Why you disbelieve in any deity(s)

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It’s to try and generate worthy substantive responses, you’d not understand.

I see you’ve dropped the laughable pretence you’re ignoring my posts, but though you can’t manage to let it alone, you aren’t actually offering anything either. Does admitting you were wrong bother you that much? That’s a little sad.

So, do you have any reference for word definitions yet, since you laughably claimed they’re not in dictionaries?

Or can you produce a single credible reference to support your risible claim, that disbelief in a deity is a claim that no deity exists? Despite every definition available refuting your claim?

We all know the answer of course, just want to see how deep a pit you’re prepared to dig here. When a simple oops, I seem to have been wrong on that one, would be as simple as rolling off a log.

Or support your claims with evidence of course, but no, I’m sure your puerile evasion and ad hominem are a much better use of your time.

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I am not sure about that because China is state atheism and also what about dictatorship North Korea where it is illegal to be religious

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In North Korea, there is an incessant and pervasive emphasis for the cult of personality for the leader, Kim Jong-un. If you are to worship anything or anyone, it is supposed to be the supreme leader.

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Daniel 2… China and N. Korea are both Extremely Religious. Just because they are not Christian, does not mean they are not religious.

N. Korea is a personality Cult and Kim Jong Il is the current God following in his dead father’s footprints Kim Jong Un. North Koreans are taught from their earliest age the mind reading capabilities of their Great leader.

" While other countries have had cults of personality to various degrees, the pervasiveness and extreme nature of North Korea’s personality cult surpasses that of even Stalin or Mao."
THIS IS RELIGION
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China has a long tradition of ancestor worship and like the Christian faith, this belief system permeates society with superstition, prayer, holiday rituals, beliefs and more. “The Chinese Communist Party is officially atheist , but it recognizes five religions: Buddhism , Catholicism , Daoism , Islam , and Protestantism. * There are a growing number of religious believers, including those who practice folk religions and more than a dozen other banned faiths.”

" Confucianism and Taoism (Daoism), later joined by Buddhism, constitute the “three teachings” that have shaped Chinese culture."

Chinese folk religion / unaffiliated (73.56%)

It is a complete myth that the Chinese are Atheistic or that they do not have a religion. Chinese folk religions are everywhere.

Chinese ancestor worship or Chinese ancestor veneration , also called the Chinese patriarchal religion ,[1] is an aspect of the Chinese traditional religion which revolves around the ritual celebration of the deified ancestors and tutelary deities of people with the same surname organised into lineage societies in ancestral shrines. Ancestors, their ghosts, or spirits, and gods are considered part of “this world”, that is, they are neither supernatural (in the sense of being outside nature) nor transcendent in the sense of being beyond nature.

Ancestor Worship in Contemporary China: An Empirical Investigation Anning Hu

"China are venerating the spirits of ancestors or deceased relatives and visiting the gravesite of ancestors. Ancestor worship practice participants make up over 70 percent of the adult population. " China Review

Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring 2016), pp. 169-186 (18 pages)

Published By: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

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Those two statues are going to be a bugger when the time comes to pull them down.

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Saw a clip yesterday about those statues.

The bits I remember: It’s perfectly fine to take photos of the statues. BUT it must be of the full figure or nothing.

If one is wealthy enough to own a bicycle, one must dismount if passing the statues, walking until out of sight.

It’s interesting that the Kim dynasty is in its third generation. I guess ancestor worship may fit in somewhere. BUT, the deceased Kims are Fat Boy’s ancestors, not the ancestors of the entire nation. OR is ‘the ancestors of the nation’ taught, even if implicitly?

As despotic rulers go, the Kims have done very well. Has the incumbent creepy dictator’s missus popped out a unit yet?

From memory, I don’t remember such a thing being a problem with the former soviet bloc countries pulling down Stalin’s statues.

Why does the Kim regime survive? Perhaps largely due social control to a stunning degree, the pervasive fear such a system causes an well as no disenchanted middle class .

There are a lot of videos supposedly made by Koreans who have defected from North to South Korea. For all I know, they may be South Korean propaganda.

Below are a couple: .

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If any Korean, anyplace in the world, moves to South Korea, they are immediately granted citizenship as a Korean. This includes North Koreans.
" The Korean citizenship law primarily recognizes
ius sanguinis, meaning that whoever is born to a Korean national immediately becomes a Korean citizen regardless of where he or she was born."

Koreans born abroad, even in blended families, are believed to be dual citizens by the Korean government. They only need come to Korea and apply. They will then be given one year to renounce the citizenship of their home country. I work with Koreans that were adopted by Americans as children. I know of one, right now, who is staying in Korea and renouncing Canadian Citizenship. Last year there was another from Irvine, California who spent a year in Korea and hated it. He went back home to America.

I think I have mentioned before, I have a friend who volunteers teaching English to North Korean refugees in Seoul. The stories you hear are certainly true. It is also true that the government uses them for propaganda. I can not imagine anyone escaping from N Korea, coming here and then touting the glory of life under Kim Jong-un being allowed to stay in the country.