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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Most maniacal despots tend towards monotheism... and have a very specific god in mind to worship. They tend to see him whenever they look in a mirror.

That's kind of the implication. They're the kind of people who can't tolerate the idea of somebody being greater than them and, at the same time, want to remove anything that could divide the peoples' loyalty and weaken their grasp. The obvious exception being when the religion is the state and the ruler is seen as either an incarnation of god or his direct representative on Earth, although even there it's a matter of them wanting the worship for themselves but not being able to transition from a structure where their power is derived from religion to a society without that religion (or, more specifically, from a religion not centered on them to a religion centered on them)

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