Militant atheism has become a religion

[SpartanDem]

278. You're in denial of history

if you think that the elimination of religious thinking was not a part communist of ideology in the Soviet Union. You have to deny the writings of Lenin. If it was just about power why were there propaganda campaigns? Why were groups like LMA formed?


I also said it was PART of the reason, sometimes it was for purely political reasons they oppressed or tolerated religion. But that doesn't changed their overarching ideology from wikipedia article of Marxist-Leninist atheism: "The pragmatic nature of the militant atheism of the USSR, meant that some cooperation and tolerance could exist between the régime and religion when it was deemed to be in the best interests of the state or it was found that certain antireligious tactics would deal more harm than good towards the goal of eliminating religion (e.g. hardening believers’ religious feelings). These forms of cooperation and tolerance by no means meant that religion did not need to be eliminated ultimately.[34] Militant atheism was a profound and fundamental philosophical commitment of the ideology, and not simply the personal convictions of those who ran the regime.[38]"

and anti-religious campaigns continued after WWII. From the article that I posted in my previous reply from the Journal of the Scientific Study of Religion(which is a peer reviewed academic sociology/psychology journal).

"As this report hints, the blame for religious persistence was attributed to Yaroslavsky’s
own organization and during the final months of the Great Terror the “personnel and cadres
of the League of Militant Atheists movement were under heavy fire” (Luukkanen 1997:161).
Widespread killings of religious believers ended on the eve of World War II, and as Soviets faced
death from a foreign invader, religious persecution was put on hold.1
Immediately following World War II, religious persecution generally took on a less deadly
form through the use of social sanctions and a renewed effort to offer religious believers an
atheistic alternative"

Another from the JSSR. Why are there so many peer reviewed articles studying the effects of the Soviets attempting to have their populace adopt atheism? That's a lot studies on something that you say didn't happen.

The amazing decline and then re-growth of religious monopolies across the
Soviet Union is mainly due to the arrival and then disappearance of a powerful
religious competitor m the doctrine of scientific atheism. Soviets introduced
"scientific atheism" as an alternative to religion; the doctrine of atheism held a
monopoly status within the Soviet religious economy through state repression of
its ideological competitors and continued government funding of its promotion
(Froese forthcoming).
Following the Russian Revolution, the Communist Party fully believed that
the intellectual enlightenment brought on by modernization and socialism
would naturally quell all religious activity.
The advent of a new society was to make the eradication of religion all but automatic .... In
this belief the party tumed out to be greatly mistaken. The Bolsheviks had anticipated post-
revolutionary battles involving political parties, classes, nationalities, and interest groups.
What they did not foresee was the extent to which competing cultural perceptions and
aspiratiom that emerged around the issue of atheism would bring ala important cukural
dimension into the equation as well (Husband 2000;, 35)
http://socrel.oxfordjournals.org/content/65/1/57.full.pdf

Finally, atheism does not have dogma, but communism did in the Soviet Union and part of that was the elimination of religion. On DU we've seen people express views that could be described as anti-theist. These people just took their anti-theist views to an extreme as part of broader ideology. I don't think I can express the broader ideology part enough, an atheist society was not their goal, a communist one was their goal. The elimination of religion was a means to an end.