North Korean leader Kim Il Sung wrote about religion in the context of Korea’s national liberation struggle against Japan. In the first instance, Kim replies that a person is “mistaken” if he or she believes the proposition that religion is the “opium of the people” can be applied in all instances, explaining that if a religion “prays for dealing out divine punishment to Japan and blessing the Korean nation” then it is a “patriotic religion” and its believers are patriots. Today’s Japanese couples enjoy weaving together their favorite rituals from ancient Japan and modern Western culture to create an unforgettable wedding day. Religion in Albania was subordinated in the interest of nationalism during periods of national revival, when it was identified as foreign predation to Albanian culture. Babylonia mainly focused on the god Marduk, who is the national god of the Babylonian empire. Kim’s writings addressed the “opium of the people” metaphor twice, both in the context of responding to comrades who object to working with religious groups (Chonbulygo and Chondoism). On the other hand, some Orthodox Jews, including a number of prominent religious figures, actively supported either anarchist or Marxist versions of communism.

Consisting of a synthesis of Christian theology and Marxist socioeconomic analyses, liberation theology stresses social concern for the poor and advocates for liberation for oppressed peoples. In the 1950s and the 1960s, liberation theology was the political praxis of Latin American theologians, such as Gustavo Gutiérrez of Peru, Leonardo Boff of Brazil, Juan Luis Segundo of Uruguay and Jon Sobrino of Spain, who made popular the phrase the “Preferential option for the poor”. Camilo Torres Restrepo was one of the key thinkers of liberation theology. One instance would be the chapel setting the place the priests talks to men and women about their religious values. Oppression of religious groups was nearly totally ended and relations between religious groups and the People’s Republic of Kampuchea were much more neutral throughout its existence until the restoration of the monarchy a decade later. The People’s Republic of China was established in 1949 and for much of its early history maintained a hostile attitude toward religion which was seen as emblematic of feudalism and foreign colonialism.

Communist philosopher Mir-Said (Mirza) Sultan-Galiev, Joseph Stalin’s protégé at the People’s Commissariat for Nationalities (Narkomnats), wrote in The Life of Nationalities, the Narkomnats’ journal. But if there’s a chindogu evangelist, it would be Dan Papia, who worked at another magazine, the Tokyo Journal. The famine threatened humankind and so, after some god-to-god bargaining – after all, the gods couldn’t let humans die off; who would praise them? If the church were to be persecuted, it would win sympathy among the masses, for persecution would remind them of the almost forgotten days when there was an association between religion and the defence of national freedom; it would strengthen the antisemitic movement; and in general it would mobilize all the vestiges of an ideology which is already beginning to die out. Vietnam, with many opposing South Vietnam due to former President Ngo Dinh Diem’s persecution of Buddhism during the early 1960s. The current Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso speaks positively of Marxism despite the heavy persecution of the Tibetan people by the post-Mao Zedong and post-Cultural Revolution Chinese government. Like with asylum, a refugee has to prove that he or she has a “well-founded fear of persecution” and has not participated in the persecution of others.

The government throws lots of obstacles at you, like restrictive taxes and laws. To gather support from the masses during World War II, the Stalin government re-opened thousands of temples and extinguished the League of Militant Atheists. During the Russian Civil War, Jews were seen as Communist sympathizers and thousands were murdered in pogroms by the White Army. In contrast with the brutal repression of the sangha undertaken in Cambodia, the Communist government of Laos has not sought to oppose or suppress Buddhism in Laos to any great degree, rather since the early days of the Pathet Lao communist officials have sought to use the influence and respect afforded to Buddhist clergy to achieve political goals while discouraging religious practices seen as detrimental to Marxist aims. Marxist sociology and Marxist economics have no connection to religious issues and make no assertions about such things. Not to forget that in order to sell their products and in order to make it a fashion statement, a fashion company urges its customers to get God of cricket printed on their T-shirts.