On 1/11/2010 12:58 AM, Mark Traceur wrote: >> From the same article: >> >> "Continuous persecution in the 1930s resulted in its near-extinction as a >> public institution" (it = the Russian Orthodox Church) > > Yes, but it seemed that your point was that atheists exhibited warlike > tendencies towards religious institutions, and you used Stalin as an > example. I gave you evidence that Stalin was not an atheist, even if > he found that, as the leader of a country, religion was bad for his > people. At that point, it becomes a point of policy, not of personal > beliefs. > > --MarkTraceur
Religion isn't bad for the people. Religion, on the other hand, is bad for the government. It weakens its strength in the eyes of the people (and rightly so). -- PIT
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