Militant atheism has become a religion

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

51. I am answering you

Those two men were forcing atheism on others literally at gunpoint. It is exactly the same as the forced baptisms of Jews and Muslims by the Spanish in the late 15th century -- whether or not these "conversions" actually took is a quite different question. (Indeed, the Spanish Inquisition spent much of its time looking at conversos.) It makes no difference if they were actually able to change people's opinions, since any failure to do so was not from lack of trying

You are the one not paying attention. These two men used force -- what libertarians call "men with guns" -- to push atheism on the populace. You want, for some reason known best to yourself, to deny that this can even happen. Look at it this way: Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain forced Catholicism on non-Catholics in their country. So why is it so hard for you to accept that Hoxha and Stalin forced atheism on non-atheists in their respective countries?