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What Does It Mean To Be Atheist.
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RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist.
(August 14, 2017 at 6:11 pm)laserthought Wrote:
(August 14, 2017 at 6:11 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Lol, sorry to break it to you but the soviet union was run by a bunch of militant atheists, not jews.

  Are you high?!  Read my thread again.  Look at the pictures and read the quotes.

You are wrong about this. 


Quote:Thus the USSR became the first state to have as one objective of its official ideology the elimination of existing religion, and the prevention of future implanting of religious belief, with the goal of establishing state atheism (gosateizm). Under the doctrine of state atheism in the Soviet Union, there was a "government-sponsored program of forced conversion to atheism" conducted by Communists. The communist regime targeted religions based on State interests, and while most organized religions were never outlawed, religious property was confiscated, believers were harassed, and religion was ridiculed while atheism was propagated in schools. In 1925 the government founded the League of Militant Atheists to intensify the persecution.

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The vast majority of people in the Russian empire were, at the time of the revolution, religious believers, whereas the communists aimed to break the power of all religious institutions and eventually replace religious belief with atheism. "Science" was counterposed to "religious superstition" in the media and in academic writing.

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Marxist–Leninist atheism has consistently advocated the control, suppression, and elimination of religion. Within about a year of the revolution, the state expropriated all church property, including the churches themselves, and in the period from 1922 to 1926, 28 Russian Orthodox bishops and more than 1,200 priests were killed. Many more were persecuted

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_i...viet_Union
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly." 

-walsh
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What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by laserthought - August 14, 2017 at 4:25 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Minimalist - August 14, 2017 at 4:27 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Brian37 - August 14, 2017 at 4:35 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by laserthought - August 14, 2017 at 5:15 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by rexbeccarox - August 14, 2017 at 4:51 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Ivan Denisovich - August 14, 2017 at 4:57 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by laserthought - August 14, 2017 at 5:22 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Gawdzilla Sama - August 14, 2017 at 7:48 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by laserthought - August 14, 2017 at 5:08 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Crossless2.0 - August 14, 2017 at 5:13 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by drfuzzy - August 14, 2017 at 5:38 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by LadyForCamus - August 14, 2017 at 6:09 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by laserthought - August 14, 2017 at 6:11 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Catholic_Lady - August 14, 2017 at 6:22 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Mister Agenda - August 14, 2017 at 5:21 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Gawdzilla Sama - August 14, 2017 at 5:22 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Succubus - August 14, 2017 at 5:29 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Minimalist - August 14, 2017 at 5:30 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by laserthought - August 14, 2017 at 5:51 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by vorlon13 - August 14, 2017 at 5:34 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by laserthought - August 14, 2017 at 6:06 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Alex K - August 14, 2017 at 6:03 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by laserthought - August 14, 2017 at 6:10 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Catholic_Lady - August 14, 2017 at 6:03 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Catholic_Lady - August 14, 2017 at 6:11 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by brewer - August 14, 2017 at 6:39 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by laserthought - August 14, 2017 at 6:57 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by The Valkyrie - August 14, 2017 at 6:58 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by The Valkyrie - August 14, 2017 at 6:55 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by vorlon13 - August 14, 2017 at 6:59 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Alex K - August 14, 2017 at 7:03 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by vorlon13 - August 14, 2017 at 7:16 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Catholic_Lady - August 14, 2017 at 7:21 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by The Valkyrie - August 14, 2017 at 7:36 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Astonished - August 14, 2017 at 8:33 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by brewer - August 14, 2017 at 9:08 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by The Valkyrie - August 14, 2017 at 9:11 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Crossless2.0 - August 14, 2017 at 9:13 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Joods - August 14, 2017 at 9:22 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Crossless2.0 - August 14, 2017 at 9:33 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Jackalope - August 15, 2017 at 12:51 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Joods - August 15, 2017 at 2:14 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Cyberman - August 15, 2017 at 3:11 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Jackalope - August 15, 2017 at 5:16 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by Fireball - August 14, 2017 at 10:10 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by The Valkyrie - August 14, 2017 at 10:15 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by vorlon13 - August 15, 2017 at 2:59 pm
RE: What Does It Mean To Be Atheist. - by vorlon13 - August 15, 2017 at 3:42 pm

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