(January 15, 2015 at 2:05 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(January 15, 2015 at 1:58 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Wow, he's still trying to conflate banning religious materials with secularism.Quote:The year 1917 was a major turning point in Russian history, and also the Russian Orthodox Church.[13] The Russian empire was dissolved and the Tsarist government - which had granted the Church numerous privileges - was overthrown. After a few months of political turmoil, the Bolsheviks took power in October 1917 and declared a separation of church and state. Thus the Russian Orthodox Church found itself without official state backing for the first time in its history. One of the first decrees of the new Communist government (issued in January 1918) declared freedom from "religious and anti-religious propaganda". This led to a marked decline in the power and influence of the Church.
What part of "religious and anti-religious propaganda" don't you understand?
Atheism is a non-prophet organization join today.
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