You aren’t allowed to be a free thinker in a Stalinist/Maoist state. Government is god.
**any number of believers are absolute churls to other people...**
Lots of folks say they are “believers”. God says that believers are known by their “fruits”. These believers know that they are at war with their own tendencies for bad behavior, and respond accordingly.
‘You aren’t allowed to be a free thinker in a Stalinist/Maoist state. Government is god.’
substituting one theocracy for another, and purporting that the one you approve of is true, is a rather weak defense of your metaphysical worldview...
‘These believers know that they are at war with their own tendencies for bad behavior’
everybody, at some point, is at war with his own conflicting turmoils; it proffers no excuse to use that as a defense against obtuse and arrogant behavior towards others...