Texas church shooting leaves many dead (atleast 27).

[VGPolyglot]

SpokenTruth said:

VGPolyglot said:

I don't know if they made speeches on atheism, but they made speeches against religion. I'm not sure if you want to use Wikipedia as a valid source, but they mainly ended the campaign because they needed support for the regime after Operation Barbarossa:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR_anti-religious_campaign_(1928-1941)

That was more about politics and power.  For centuries, power and influence were heavily controlled by the churches (Rome, for example).  Prior to the late 1910s, the Russian Orthodox Church was controlled by the government but when Communists took over, they separated the church out because it didn't fit with the ideology.  And because the church still held power and influence, they had to be eliminated.

It's not so much atheism itself that was the problem but rather communism.

Can't you say the same about religious institutions? That it's more about politics and power? And I'd say that it was authoritarianism that was the problem, neither atheism nor communism.