Juche Ideology and Religion

Juche Ideology and righteousness Juche is a Communist led and sponsored righteousness in north nearly Korea do up of a mixture of political orientation, philosophy, and trust for over 22,000,000 volume, most of which be North Koreans, as stated by backside Chin of the Religion-Info website (Chin). Juche is practiced, mandatorily, in North Korea by their government leader Kim Jong-Il, and is more of a fond political orientation instead of an actual religion. Although, the only modal value this political theory is promoted as a religion is by the way that Juche adopted some of the Confucius nouss.John Chin also states the ideas of Juche following only ane bang-up attraction, and secondly that the Korean thespians fellowship revolution belongs to the people (Chin). Then afterwards the idea of self-reliance or self-sufficiency as a state of matter was added to Juche which the word itself by Korean language office self-reliance (Adherents. com). Also, Jurgen Kleiner states that Kim Il-Sung created this ideology to save him from political and cordial obstacles of the day.So, really this religion in my belief is not a true religion, but actually a neighborly ideology as a matter of item, if Juche were really a religion then it would be a choice to adhere to not agonistic like it is in North Korea. Juche ideology is practiced majorly in North Korea where the choice is not given to the people on whether they want to opine in something else or to follow the Juche beliefs. By Jurgen Kleiner the Juche ideology saved Kim Il-Sung from acquire too deeply involved in the earlier rift amid the Soviet Union and China (Kleiner).So, by what Kleiner is construction the Juche ideology was use to keep Kim Il-Sung from being involved with any Soviet or Chinese involvement. This religion does not have a main(prenominal)(prenominal) saint who has a life or death childhood experience nor does it have a saint who has a God experince where the God of their culture passes a peck onto that main saint. The closest thing that Juche has to a main saint figure, and in the working peoples eyes he is a sain by what he decl ares, 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 location is one Great draw who is to lead the valet to the utopian philosophy (Oh and Hassig). Also, Kim Il-Sung makes it to where Juche is the only religion to have the proper methods by which paradise is able to be achieved. Now in my eyes these ideas are not the way that Juche can be called a religion. As I have stated, and go away state again, I remember that Juche is not a religion, but actually a social ideology that is forced upon its people.Kim Il-Sung is fashioning the typical dictator move to secure military unit over his subjects by making a nation wide religion. The easiest way that he procures such a feat is by finding the most abundant social class and makes them the most classic of the social ideology. The trend in which Kim Il-Sung makes this religion such an accepted ideology among the common people is by the way in which he proclaimed the Korean Workers company revolution belonged to the people, and by making this move Kim Il-Sung has the entire working social class behind him to support him.By making this monstrously important move Kim Il-sung guarantees himself the survival of this ideology because of how the societal notions are regulated in North Korea. Secondly though, by Kim Il-Sung making this move he allows at that place to be someone to lead such a large stem of people. So, Il-Sung by making such a large group without a leader comes up with the idea of a Great Leader in which the people who believe in Juche should follow, and who will also lead the world to the idea of a utopian gild 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 construe of the means of production- would contradiction in termss disappear. If this dissolve of social classes is so important in the Juche beliefs then Kim Il-Sung should not have made the idea that the Korean Workers troupe was so important.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 belonging to the people would no overnight 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 buzz off absolved because if the working class is so important then how could the Korean working social class still be important. Il-Sung made a mistake in adopting the idea that the K orean Workers Party s being 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, poppycock possessions, and altruism. The adoption of family values in that the family is important in society does accord with the idea of getting rid of societal classes, but also the adoption also could lead to a clash between these two ideas by how a rich family would treat its own family members as say a poor family.Family values are adopted to help strengthen society by making those family systems stronger in the way that they commune with separately opposite and by the way they act with each new(prenominal). The adoption of how to hold fabric 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 famil y values that are shared and learned are more important. The adoption that material possessions come easily and go rightful(prenominal) 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 point of where an undivided 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 specific individual holds in their acts. So, in part this idea of one Great Leader the idea of self-sacrifice cannot be fully applied so there is another 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 ev en with the other adoptions is because of the two main reasons the foundation of Juche has in its own 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 rather a var. 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 approving what he did as a form of religious adoration does not make Juche a religion. In all actuality in my eyes, what Kim Il-Sung did was fundamentally 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 neck that Juche is not a religion is because everytime I have typed it so farther it is underlined by the red line as if I have mistakenly misw ritten a word.If juche were a religion then I would not suck up that red line. Works Cited Adherents. com. Major Religions of the World. January 2000. 4 April 2009 . Chin, John. RELIGION-INFO. COMA Guide to Religions, spectral 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 southerly Asia. Marshall Cavendish, 2007. Oh, Kong Dan and Ralph c. Hassig. North Korea Through the Looking Glass. Brookings Institution Press, 2000.