Juche Ideology and Religion

Juche Ideology and Religion Juche is a communist led and sponsored pietism in wedlock Korea do up of a commixture of political theory, philosophy, and worship for over 22,000,000 battalion, most of which be matrimony Koreans, as stated by privy Chin of the Religion-Info website (Chin). Juche is pr work oniced, mandatorily, in North Korea by their government moderateer Kim Jong-Il, and is much of a sociable political theory or else of an actual pietism. Although, the besides management this political theory is promoted as a religion is by the way that Juche demanded some of the Confucius radicals.John Chin as well as states the ideas of Juche following unless cardinal enormous attraction, and secondly that the Korean proletarians ships company revolution belongs to the concourse (Chin). Then later the idea of self-direction or self-sufficiency as a country was added to Juche which the word itself by Korean language gist self-reliance (Adherents. com). too, Jurgen Kleiner states that Kim Il-Sung created this ideology to save him from political and accessible obstacles of the day.So, real this religion in my opinion is non a true religion, well(p) now actually a social ideology as a matter of fact, if Juche were really a religion then it would be a pickax to adhere to non squeeze like it is in North Korea. Juche ideology is practiced majorly in North Korea where the choice is non given to the wad on whether they want to believe in something else or to follow the Juche flavours. By Jurgen Kleiner the Juche ideology saved Kim Il-Sung from acquire too deeply tangled in the earlier rift mingled with the Soviet Union and China (Kleiner).So, by what Kleiner is saying the Juche ideology was used to apply Kim Il-Sung from cosmos involved with any Soviet or Chinese involvement. This religion does not nominate a main(prenominal) r of all timeence who has a life or death childhood experience nor does it have a saint wh o has a theology experince where the immortal of their culture passes a vision onto that main saint. The closest thing that Juche has to a main saint figure, and in the functional peoples eyes he is a sain by what he declares, is Kim Il-Sung who is then followed by his son Kim Jong-Il.Kim Il-Sung who creates the social ideology of Juche declares one main ideal of Juche to be that in that respect is one Great attracter who is to lead the ball to the utopian philosophy (Oh and Hassig). Also, Kim Il-Sung make waters it to where Juche is the only religion to have the proper methods by which paradise is able to be achieved. today in my eyes these ideas are not the way that Juche bum be called a religion. As I have stated, and go away state again, I believe that Juche is not a religion, but actually a social ideology that is forced upon its people.Kim Il-Sung is make the typical dictator pretend to inviolate power over his subjects by reservation a rural area wide religion. The easiest way that he procures much(prenominal) a movement is by finding the most immense social separate and makes them the most serious of the social ideology. The manner in which Kim Il-Sung makes this religion such an accepted ideology among the customary people is by the way in which he proclaimed the Korean players Party revolution belonged to the people, and by fashioning this move Kim Il-Sung has the entire working social tell a case behind him to support him.By qualification this monstrously valuable move Kim Il-sung guarantees himself the natural selection of this ideology because of how the societal notions are set in North Korea. Secondly though, by Kim Il-Sung making this move he allows thither to be someone to lead such a striking group of people. So, Il-Sung by making such a large group without a leader comes up with the idea of a Great attractor in which the people who believe in Juche should follow, and who will besides lead the world to the idea of a utopian confederation and paradise on Earth.Juche ideology made by Kim Il-Sung also led to the idea that there would be an abolishment of the social classes. Il-Sung stated that only with the establishment of communism, in which there would be no competing classes- the working class having taken control of the means of production- would contradictions disappear. If this dissolve of social classes is so authoritative in the Juche beliefs then Kim Il-Sung should not have made the idea that the Korean workers Party was so eventful.I am sure that Il-Sung is using the Juche ideology to control the people of Korea because if the absolving of social classes is so important then the idea that the Korean Workers Party belong to the people would no longer be applicable to the ideology of Juche beliefs. Making the Korean Workers Party an important part of Juche ideals goes completely against the belief of having social classes become absolved because if the working class is so importa nt then how could the Korean working social class belt up be important. Il-Sung made a flaw in adopting the idea that the Korean Workers Party s organism so important while also saying that the social classes will be absolved. Now, the closest that Juche comes to being a religion is by how some beliefs of Confucianism are adopted. The ideas that are adopted are family values, literal possessions, and altruism. The sufferance of family values in that the family is important in society does coincide with the idea of getting rid of societal classes, but also the adoption also could lead to a clash between these dickens ideas by how a rich family would treat its avouch family members as say a unfortunate family.Family values are adopted to helper strengthen society by making those family systems stronger in the way that they commune with to each one different and by the way they act with each other. The adoption of how to hold strong possessions in life makes Juche closer to being a true religion in my eyes. Juche takes the idea that material possessions are not important in how life is valued, but that the family values that are shared and acquire are more important. The adoption that material possessions come easily and go just as easily stresses the importance of the people and the bond between each other and not their possessions.Lastly, the adoption of the idea of self-sacrifice also strengthens the idea of absolving society to the signify of where an mortal is not more important than the whole. Although, with Juche having the main ideology of one Great Leader then that is the only individual that should not be sacrificed because of the importance that that particular(prenominal) individual holds in their acts. So, in part this idea of one Great Leader the idea of self-sacrifice cannot be richly applied so there is other contradiction in the ideology and belief system of Juche practice.So, overall in everything I have presented I believe that Juche is not a religion nor will it ever be one even if it were to adopt other ideals of other religions, and the reason it would not be even with the other adoptions is because of the two main reasons the foundation of Juche has in its hold beginning. The two main beliefs of the Korean Workers Party being so important, and the belief of one Great Leader. Juche is not a religion, but sort of a striving of social ideology used to control a nation and her people. Kim Il-Sung making such a monumental Communist move to control theKorean people, and then trying to justify such a move by approbative what he did as a form of religious worship does not make Juche a religion. In all actuality in my eyes, what Kim Il-Sung did was basically make himself a God by claiming himself and his male descendants as the Great Leader is the biggest flaw in Juche ideology, and will that single fact can keep Juche from being a religion. Also as a final side-note and to be kind of funny, another way I know that Juche is not a religion is because everytime I have typed it so furthest it is underlined by the red line as if I have mistakenly miswritten a word.If juche were a religion then I would not see that red line. whole caboodle Cited Adherents. com. Major Religions of the World. January 2000. 4 April 2009 . Chin, John. RELIGION-INFO. COMA excrete to Religions, Religious Information and Help in Search for God. 21 December 2004. 6 April 2009 . Kleiner, Jurgen. Korea, A Century of Change. World Scientific, 2001. marshall Cavendish Corporation. World and Its Peoples Eastern and Southern Asia. marshall Cavendish, 2007. Oh, Kong Dan and Ralph c. Hassig. 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