Theocracy and Religious Dictatorships

What is happening in Iran today is a consequence of forty-seven years of imposing an ideology on people and calling it religion to rally the ignorant masses. Those uninformed and often uneducated are easily manipulated and convinced that an ideology and a wrongful interpretation of a religion are based on the word and rule of God. In countries where the population is religious since birth and religion is innate and intuitive, invoking God captures listening souls and closes the way to inquire or ask questions because the people fear blasphemy due to reasoning, questioning, research, or examination of facts. Pragmatism is seen as a refusal of divine rule and power, and secularism is defined as blasphemy and disbelief. A secular person is called an atheist. The best way to convince people, brainwash them, and make them accept the power’s thinking and ideology is to attribute what they say to God and the Prophet. In many of these dictatorships, illiteracy is encouraged, and the country often has a high rate of illiterate people who can’t read or write, and illiterates with degrees.

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