[FlyVet]

"To achieve Olympic glory for the motherland is the sacred mission assigned by the Communist Party central," is how Chinese Sports Minister Liu Peng put it at the beginning of the Games.

Yes, of course, and last year I had some really smart Freeper, oh so educated and familiar with the Russian way, much smarter than I, explain to me how Communism is an ideology, not a religion.

Uh huh.

[MrB]

Probably an atheist trying to deny that atheism is itself a THEOLOGY.

Atheists and their Secular Humanist counterparts love to position themselves as the neutral or default ideology that is devoid of theology.