Why are religions, especially Christianity, always banned in countries like North Korea or the USSR?
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Sometimes religion can be useful to a regime, so that's not a universal feature or tendency (for such).
Classic Marxism would have a doctrinal commitment to materialism. But aside from that, one might assume any hostility toward religion could stem from a need to reduce the ideological competition, to maximize worship of the state.
With regard to NK, especially, one can't have rival threats to the personality cult lingering around. And the latter is obviously rogue with regard to accepting demigods. Surely no equivalent of the League of Militant Atheists at work there.
George Bernard Shaw: I am [...] one of the leaders of the most notable Socialist organizations in England. [...] but do you suppose that the German Social-Democrats tolerate me? Not a bit of it.
[...] All they want to know is; Am I orthodox? Am I correct in my revolutionary views? Am I reverent to the revolutionary authorities? Because I am a genuine free-thinker they look at me as a policeman looks at a midnight prowler or as a Berlin bourgeois looks at a suspicious foreigner.
[...] Thus you may see that when a [...superficial freethinker...] throws off all the bonds of convention, and stands free from all allegiance to established religion, law, order, patriotism, and learning, he promptly uses his freedom to put on a headier set of chains... --The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring
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The religion is often replaced with the ideology, such as communism in the Soviet Union replacing Christianity.
А общество может существовать совсем без идеологии?
No one said it was better, they are both equally bad. Communism and Christianity destroy humanity.
Societies existing with reasonable and rational ideologies exist. Communism and Christianity are neither.