What Kind of Atheist are You?

[Red Economist]

Nobody is arguing against Communism being a complete worldview. It is but you cannot claim to be a form of atheism. Atheism by itself is nothing but a lack of belief in gods or God. Any number of worldviews may incorporate it. My own particular worldview has little in common with your's outside of atheism. Neither of us may claim atheism as if it belongs to us. Any idiot may claim the universe was created by the lizard spawn of Tom Paris and Catherine Janeway but those fools may not claim kinship with us.

That is fair. There is no single atheism, but it is somewhat treated differently; Liberals are secularists and therefore can separate politics from atheism and atheism is therefore a personal belief, whereas communists can't and end up with an atheist state; their views on religion/philosophy and politics are closely connected that they produce a state which resembles a theocracy-just minus the god bit.