(December 3, 2018 at 11:17 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(December 3, 2018 at 4:31 pm)Cherub786 Wrote: "Democratic Kampuchea was officially an atheist state, and the persecution of religion by the Khmer Rouge was matched in severity only by the persecution of religion in the communist states of Albania and North Korea, so there were not any direct historical continuities of Buddhism into the Democratic Kampuchea era."
Wessinger, Catherine (2000). Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases. Syracuse University Press. p. 282. ISBN 9780815628095.
That still doesn't support your statement that they were motivated by atheism or hatred of religion. I'm an atheist, but when I eat food, I can tell you it isn't motivated by my atheism. Telling us that they were atheists tells us nothing about what their motives were.
They were motivated by the desire to create a religion-less society. That obviously came from their atheism.
