I love that one poster of a cosmonaut looking around space with "There is no god" underneath him: https://www.etsy.com/listing/750775444/theres-no-god-boga-net-1960s-ussr-anti
cw: kidnapping, religion
some context I guess
These guys founded in 1925, so most of the adults would have gone to school at a church or otherwise had a religious education, because that was the main form of education in pre-revolution Soviet countries. It was incredibly common for young women to be sent off to a seminary to become a nun instead of learning math or history.
I try to bring this up when defending the USSR's policies regarding religion, or at least I hope to put this into context for more people. Religion in tsarist Russia wasn't simply some affiliation people had or a feeling in their heart. It wasn't simply reading the Bible before dinner with your family. It was an entire structure of bureaucracy onto itself.
In a typical peasant village, the local priest could be the school teacher, the village accountant, he could organize local events, he could be a local government representative. The church was sometimes the only media the peasants consumed, the priest was the one to tell you about national events or news. Priests and clergy had a functional, structural role in maintaining society. Disentangling the church from matters of everyday life became a serious concern for the socialists, as it should have been.
I know it sounds goofy now to consider what a "militant atheist" is, but that's because we never experienced the feeling of seeing someone's daughter dragged away to become a nun, or a village of peasants kept illiterate on purpose.
the best part is jesus looks drunk and the text implies jesus is drunk
"Struggle against religion is struggle for communism"
if this were the average atheist redditor thatd be cool, unfortunately this is the average anti-atheist redditor lol
The league embraced workers, peasants, students, and intelligentsia. It had its first affiliates at factories, plants, collective farms (kolkhozy), and educational institutions. By the beginning of 1941 it had about 3.5 million members from 100 ethnicities.
sounds like these guys were way better than redditors and new atheists
:stalin-feels-good:
america would be 10% less bad if the the cadre of religious freaks who can't shut up were legally barred from political power.
lol in high school I had a religious weirdo classmate complain to me about how mean China is to foreign Christian missionaries
Me: hell yeah dude sounds sick :party-sicko: :party-blob: :party-parrot:
'support' means the CPC control important affairs, the christians follow church hierarchs approved by the party. of course the buddhists in tibet & elsewhere also have party-approved leaders. any liberal and probably some christian socialists would find this unacceptable breach of freedom of religion. I like it because i don't like freedom of religion as such but lets not pretend the CPC is actually soft and significantly diverging from the soviet line---they're not.
It would've been good if India was harder on religion and superstition but it was already partitioned along religious lines. So no one ones to touch religion at all. That's why India has a wacky situation where different religions (Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Parsis) have different marriage laws. Regarding how old you have to be, is polygamy allowed, etc
There was a communist party and I have relatives who were in it! They missed out on that powerful part 😞. I need to read up more on what was going on around that time since I don't really know the details
There are still reminants of this school of thought here in South Africa, mainly POC communists that are atheist for anti colonial and ideological reasons.
Very rare though, most people are religious and not communist
They were launching all those guys into space to look for God so they could take him down
