(January 28, 2015 at 4:40 pm)Blackout Wrote: When we talk about the Soviet Union or even Cuba, China and North Korea I don't think there were any acts or violence or persecution in the name of atheism... I do think there was a strong (too strong) anti-religious sentiment and obviously being an atheist was preferable, Stalin was himself an atheist, so was Lenin...
I think this is the result of political dogma, in this case communist, marxist-leninist and stalinist, as well as maoist, together with a political agenda and anti-religious ideas. It's not atheism's fault. Any political ideology can end badly if it's applied trough force. I am right wing, but I'm not going to lump communists into the same category, because I've personally met some of them, and curiously they all seem to hate Stalin (but not Lenin so much).
It is, hypothetically, possible for a war in the name of atheism to exist if people fighting in it claimed that they were officially doing for the right of non belief in gods, but no one has ever done that. Quite the contrary in fact (pun intended).
Like I said it was merely replacing one religion with worship of the state which is also a religion. I don't like either.
