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Originally Posted by William_the_Bloody
As for "militant atheists" in regards to China, you bring up a good point in regards to atheism being an essential component to Communism. The fact that Christianity was brutally suppressed in the Soviet Union is proof of this, but today it is thriving under Putin's autocratic regime that is pretty much controlled by the ex KGB. Largely because it coincides with his ideological principles of European Conservative Nationalism.
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The absence of a competing dogma is an essential component to communism. Whether it's religion or not is irrelevant.
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Totalitarianism doesn't equate to atheism though, National Socialism was based on paganism and nature worship despite it's pseudo scientific Darwinian component.
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Actually National Socialism wasn't really based on paganism. Some members of the party were involved in
the Thule Society, and pagan occultism, but Hitler and most of his important flunkies weren't involved much if at all with any of that neo-pagan goofiness. Hitler actually outlawed occult organizations.
IIRC, the Nazis' relationship with religion in general (or at least with Christianity) was, "Don't **** with us, and we won't **** with you."