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In reply to the discussion: March 25 good news: 84 percent of the world population has faith........ [View all]Act_of_Reparation
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At least twice now you've provided Russia as an example of an atheistic state, in the present tense. It is not. For almost two decades now the Russian government, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, has been building a Russian identity at least partly around the Russian Orthodox church. A majority of ethnic Russians identify as Orthodox and the number is rising.
The Soviet Union, not Russia, was an atheistic state. And it hasn't existed since I was in grade school.
Finally, like the conservative Christians from whom you're ripping this asinine example, you're making a composition error. Communism demands an atheist state. Communists therefore, are atheists. Not all atheists, however, are communists. There is nothing inherent to atheism that demands under threat of persecution that everyone else be atheist, too. That's a communism problem, not an atheism problem.