Reply #50: It's not just the "lack"

[YankeyMCC]

It is the fact that it isn't substantial enough to bind people together.

The catholic religion would not be a religion if the only aspect of its dogma was "there is a god". There's a lot more to it than that.

And a common belief in the existence of god certainly hasn't held together all the different religions, not even sects within religions.

The relevance is that we were discussing atheist persecution of people who believe in god. Communists regimes who have persecuted the religion did so on the basis of the religious organization being a threat to their power not because the people believed in god.