The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians

[Redbeard The Pink]

How many people did he kill in the name of atheism?

He was an atheist, and he was a militant communist, but he was not a militant atheist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_atheism

State promotion of atheism as a public norm first came to prominence in Revolutionary France (1789–1799). Revolutionary Mexico followed similar policies from 1917, as did Marxist–Leninist states. The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1917–1991) and the Soviet Union (1922–1991) had a long history of state atheism, whereby those seeking social success generally had to profess atheism and to stay away from houses of worship; this trend became especially militant during the middle Stalinist era from 1929 to 1939. The Soviet Union attempted to suppress public religious expression over wide areas of its influence, including places such as central Asia.

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 (a much greater number was subjected to persecution). Most seminaries were closed, and publication of religious writing was banned. The Russian Orthodox Church, which had 54,000 parishes before World War I, was reduced to 500 by 1940. A meeting of the Antireligious Commission of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) that occurred on 23 May 1929 estimated the portion of believers in the USSR at 80 percent, though this percentage may be understated to prove the successfulness of the struggle with religion.

Communist oppression of religion wasn't about promoting atheism; it was about promoting the State as the sole source of authority, guidance, and power. That wasn't militant atheism, but militant power dynamics. Theists pretty much never get this right because it's far more convenient to say, "Look! Stalin was an atheist and he was HORRIBLE!"


Never mind the fact that this is virtually the only example they come up with that isn't an outright misrepresentation (Hitler gets mentioned a lot, but he was Christian). Never mind the fact that religious people (some even claiming to be deities themselves) likely comprise the vast majority of history's most brutal rulers. Never mind that religious violence is far more typical and rampant than atheist violence. Never mind that atheists make up less than 1% of prison populations even though they comprise up to 23% of the general, American populace. Never mind any of that...atheists are bad people, and militant atheists are just like Stalin.


Fuck off with that shit.