Then i am baffled as to what you are doing in a Christian forum, especially lying that Dawkins is an agnostic, when he is in fact an outright atheist spouting his hateful gospel of "New Atheism" at every chance and every place at every opportunity he gets.
And the fact is he is a hypocrite doing exactly what despises in believers forcing his unprovable belief down their throats and making a huge amount of money and fame in the process.
He should go home and abandon his useless quest what be with those that he loves best, namely his wife, children and grandchildren in the little time he has left in this world.
He is not only an atheist "He is an angry Athiest" and that is the fact, not your nonsense that he gives any credence toward the existence of God
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Militant atheism
Joseph Stalin, the Premier of the
Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953, patronised the
League of Militant Atheists, whose chief aim, under the leadership of Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, was to propagate militant
atheism and eradicate
religion.
[1][2]
Militant atheism (
Russian: воинствующий атеизм) is a term applied to
atheism which is hostile towards
religion.
[3] Militant atheists have a desire to propagate the doctrine,[4] and differ from moderate atheists because they hold religion to be harmful.
[5]
Militant atheism was an integral part of the
materialism of
Marxism-Leninism,
[6] and significant in the
French Revolution,
[7] atheist states such as the
Soviet Union,
[8] and
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
[9] The term has also been applied to antireligious
political thinkers.
[10]
According to Harold J. Berman, a Harvard specialist in Soviet law,
"militant atheism was the official religion, one might say, of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party was the established church."
[19] The militant atheism of the
Bolsheviks owed its origins to the "standard Marxist feeling that religion was the opium of the masses."
[20] Vitalij Lazarʹevič Ginzburg, a Soviet physicist, wrote that the "Bolshevik communists were not merely atheists but, according to
Lenin's terminology, militant atheists."
[21]
The goal of the Soviet Union was the liquidation of religion and the means to achieve this goal included the destruction of churches, mosques, synagogues, mandirs, madrasahs, religious monuments, as well the mass deportation to Siberia of believers of different religions.
[22] Under the Soviet doctrine of
separation of church and state, detailed in the Constitution of the Soviet Union, churches in the Soviet Union were forbidden to
give to the poor or carry on
educational activities.
[23] They could not
publish literature since all publishing was done by state agencies, although after World War II the Russian Orthodox Church was given the right to publish church calendars, a very limited number of
Bibles, and a monthly journal in a limited number of copies.
[23] Churches were forbidden to hold any special meetings for children, youth or women, or any general meetings for religious study or recreation, or to open libraries or keep any books other than those necessary for the performance of worship services.
[24] Furthermore, under militant atheist policies, Church property was expropriated.
[25] Moreover, not only was religion banned from the school and university system, but pupils were to be indoctrinated with atheism and antireligious teachings.
[26] For example, schoolchildren were asked to convert family members to
atheism and memorize antireligious rhymes, songs, and catechisms, while university students who declined to propagate atheism lost their scholarships and were expelled from universities.
[27] Severe
criminal penalties were imposed for violation of these rules.
[28] By the 1960s, with the fourth Soviet anti-religious campaign underway, half of the amount of
Russian Orthodox chu
Recently the term
militant atheist has been used to describe adherents of the
New Atheism movement,
[11] which is characterized by the belief that religion "should not simply be tolerated but should be countered, criticized and exposed."
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