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- HijoDMaite0
"Throughout the history of the Soviet Union (1922–1991), there were periods where Soviet authorities suppressed and persecuted various forms of Christianity to different extents depending on State interests. Soviet Marxist-Leninism policy consistently advocated the control, suppression, and ultimately, the elimination of religious beliefs, and actively encouraged atheism in the Soviet Union. However, most religions were never officially outlawed.
The state advocated the destruction of religion, and it officially pronounced religious beliefs to be superstitious and backward. The Communist Party destroyed churches, synagogues, mosques and Buddhist temples, ridiculed, harassed, incarcerated and executed religious leaders, flooded the schools and media with anti-religious teachings, and it introduced a belief system called "scientific atheism," with its own rituals, promises and proselytizers."
- Sounds just like how every religion treats another religion. I see one common denominator here.formed
- Atheism is not a religion.monospaced
- He ment communismdrgs
- The common denominator here is Dogma, specifically Marxist Dogma.Morning_star
- dogma isn't part of atheism, thankfullymonospaced
- it's simply a non-belief in supernatural gods (and as a result, a rejection of religious dogma)monospaced