Actually he called Marxism a form of atheism. But you can correctly call both Marxism and atheism religions of course. Marxism is just a variation of atheism.
especially eastern Europe was controlled by the Catholic Church so they had to be dealt with if politcal change were to take place..... You can't demand a person believe or be an atheist, but you can establish a government that takes power from the religions....hence they closed the churches and formed governments that were secular.....I don't think they ever used the term atheist.....
They certainly DID use the term atheist:
The League of Militant Atheists [1] ( Russian: ???? ???????????? ??????????? Soyuz voinstvuyushchikh bezbozhnikov, literally League of the Militant Godless - LMG [2]); Society of the Godless (???????? ??????????? Obshchestvo bezbozhnikov); Union of the Godless (???? ??????????? Soyuz bezbozhnikov), was an atheistic and antireligious organization of workers and intelligentsia that developed in Soviet Russia under the influence of the ideological and cultural views and policies of the Soviet Communist Party ...
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The league was a "nominally independent organization established by the Communist Party to promote atheism". [9] It published newspapers, journals, and other materials that lampooned religion; it sponsored lectures and films; it organized demonstrations and parades; it set up antireligious museums; and it led a concerted effort telling Soviet citizens that religious beliefs and practices were "wrong" and "harmful", and that "good" citizens ought to embrace a scientific, atheistic worldview. [10]
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In 1929, the Second Congress changed the society's name to The Union of Belligerent (or Militant) Atheists. [13] At this Second Congress of Atheists, Nikolai Bukharin, the editor of Pravda, called for the extermination of religion "at the tip of the bayonet." [17] There, Yaroslavsky also made the following declaration:
It is our duty to destroy every religious world-concept... If the destruction of ten million human beings, as happened in the last war, should be necessary for the triumph of one definite class, then that must be done and it will be done. [18]
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All members of the Komsomol were obligated to join the League, and it directed all members of the CPSU to support the League's work. [24]
Komsomol was the Communist Youth League.
I know what you're thinking, Shep: You're thinking, Where can I join???
Now would you prefer to be called a belligerent atheist or a militant atheist or a cranky atheist? I think cranky fits you best. |
