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Originally Posted by ganderblaster
Has any communist country not had atheism as its official belief or code?
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State atheism isn't about being anti-religion – it's all about maintaining ultimate control. One of the many, many ways to do this is to strangle the power of any churches, primarily because organized religion has demonstrated over and over again that it is capable of exerting the same kind of control any crooked government wants to maintain.
If they could, I'm sure they would outlaw the most pleasurable sexual acts too, and anything else that circumvents absolutely government control and influence.
To equate communism with atheism is like equating Christianity with democracy. Neither hold any water.