24 February 2007

Juche North Korea's anti-religious religion

Now this has wondrful possibilities as a starter activity to get students to think about what is a religion.
The North Korean state-sanctioned philosophy of Juche is the 10th-largest religion in the world with 19 million adherents, according to Adherents.com, a Web site that tracks world religions.

It's also an interesting study in the way that a religious paradigm seems necessary even to reject religion...
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