For the record, I'm an atheist myself, and I generally agree with the idea that religion is more of a coping mechanism for living in hellworld than anything else.

I was also heavily involved in interfaith groups and religious studies in college, and I know a great many religious people who were also very progressive-to-leftist that would be alienated by a lot of the rhetoric around the place/status of faith in communism. I admit I've probably posted shit like this one too many times, but also some of the responses it gets are extremely dismissive and off-putting. The good news is that I've seen less of that here as time goes on. This site's done pretty well with purging a lot of the Reddit brainworms that a lot of us (myself included) had initially. I'll shut up about it now.

edit: Someone else also posted about how religious texts (specifically the Bible) contain some actual rhetoric and tools for combating the powers that be that could be useful for bringing people of faith into the fold. I think it'd be unwise to ignore that.