What Kind of Atheist are You?

[AFTT47]

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.

Yes, you have two different issues. The founders of the U.S. wisely made it a point to separate religion from public policy. I don't see how Secular Humanism and Communism have any different status under this system. You may espouse Communism here as a policy apart from atheism. You're problem is that while Communism sounds good ideologically, in practice it hasn't been effective at spreading wealth equally: Its effect has been spreading poverty equally. You need to address that before worrying about religious bias.