> We do have evidence of societies which were officially
> anti-religious. Marxist societies have tried to stamp out religion
> for years.
The Soviet Union was a country in which the state religion was
Marxism.
Marxism was not a very good religion and eventually it failed. It did
not last as long as Bahai, another recent religion which is still
going strong.
Marxism provided entities to emulate, such as a mythological Engels, a
`virtuous way of life' such as working oneself to death for the sake
of the Party, a promise of the future, a communist world in which
people enjoyed themselves -- a heaven on earth, and enemies.
The Soviet Union never tried to stamp out its own religion. The
government attacked other religions as vigorously as it could.
As for why I think this is so: I visited the then Soviet Union and I
listened to people from it and from east European countries under its
domination.
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