Attacking Buddah

Here is an excerpt from my new bool The Pol Pot Journals.

The problem is that this stuff is so ingrained in a person's heads, it's hard to get out. So we ended up using it, unconsciously. For example, some phrases from Ankar included:

"Learn from the model comrades, learn from our magnificent people, and forever learn from valuable documents, concentrate your mind to increase the discipline of Ankar and the theories of Marx-Lenin, in order to raise your mental competency."

And:

"Everyone has to rely solely on his own strength."
"You have to take a hand in your own future!"
"Be masters of your own destiny!"

And yet we also pursued a campaign against the Buddhist monks with such slogans as:

"Monks are parasites."
"Monks are tapeworms gnawing at the Bowels of society."
When I read about the religion in politics involved in the US, I can only remember our own problems with religion we dealt with it harshly. We were not going to become a Theocracy, Which is happening in the US.
Here is an excerpt from my journals:

"Buddhas were born from a mason's trowel."
"Religion is the opiate of people."
As for the monks themselves, they were dressed like everyone one else and sent into the country side to do hard work, farming the land for rice. They got no privileges from us. They worked like everyone else, or they paid for it.
We constantly stressed to the people that Buddhas were nothing more than statues and good for nothing more than bags of cement.