I Agree......I think I do

Submitted by DONEVAN (United States), Dec 8, 2014 at 10:02

Please pardon my poor attempt at understanding your position. It appears that you are equating Marxism, Maoism, and Muhammedism all as 'Religions'. That is not an unreasonable contention. Each are belief systems, and each are accepted by 'true belivers' and each require force to advance their movements .

I must disagree that they are religious, in that , unless one accepts Marx, Mao, or for that matter Muhammed as a Diety. If we delete the notion of "Diety" from the equasion, then we are no longer discussing Religion. But rather forced social colectives, of which they're many indeed. But, I am gratified that you seem to agree that Islam is a forced collective social system, rather than a Religion...

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