If a guy said “God has appointed me to be king and ruler of earth, and I have commanded my subjects to make steel, and they have disobeyed the laws of the LORD by not fulfilling their quota, so I shall execute them” nobody would argue that that wasn’t a religious killing. Nobody would say “that guy didn’t kill them for following the wrong religion, so religion wasn’t a factor.” Obviously it’s a religious killing.
Communists are atheists, specifically they believe in historical materialism. They believe that they have a natural right to form a dictatorship of the proletariat and kill all who stand in their way. Therefore, all deaths under communism are deaths caused by atheism. Yes, that includes deaths unrelated to religious beliefs. Even the murder of other communists for following the wrong sect of communism can be considered religious killings in the name of atheism.
the American cop goes to shoot me but I adroitly point out that this would make them an atheist communist and they flinch and hiss as if burned
blaming atheism for communism is like blaming…
…trying to come up with other uncontroversially true things communists believe in an uncontroversial way and am drawing a blank here, maybe anon is right
honestly the problem with the USSR isn’t that it was atheist it’s that it wasn’t atheist enough, it not only replaced one set of vibes based governance with another, but it didn’t even do a good job of crushing the church.