pizzahut451 said:
Uh, you do realise comunism is an atheist ideology that persecutes theists? God knows how many christians stalin persecuted and killed during his rulership. communisam banns religion and church in the country...
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"This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d'honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness" - Karl Marx
The first problem when talking about communism is knowing how to distinguish communism from the results of social aspects within communism. Socialism is in it's bases form a set of tools that attempt to fully reach a egalitarian end with the catalyst being altruism, Communism is in itself a method of managing the results of socialism, which is centralizing power. Now one thing that people fail to note about Communists regimes in history like Stalin is that not only did he kill the religious he also killed political adversaries, this included those of non-belief, a whole group of Anarchist some Atheist supporters of Stalin were wiped out once he showed his meglomania. If there is any truth to this that should be obvious it's that Stalin's actions showed the typical signs of a tyrant wanting to assert his domain.
This also throws out your statement that Communism in itself aims to kill theists. Stalins agenda had nothing to do with Atheism as even today in some areas ofRussia people still idolize him or Putin in a way someone may call near deified.