re: #324 wrenchwench

So murders by the USSR can be counted as “atheism” in action?

When they were committed for atheistic reasons. For example, if under Lenin or Stalin a believer was shot or sent to GULAG just for being a believer (this did not automatically happen to all believers, but that’s not the point), this was a consequence of the terrorist state being atheistic (at least in the sense in which the Soviets understood atheism; they had their own brand, “scientific atheism”, which was a mix of atheism, science, anti-clericalism, Marxism etc.; formally speaking, an atheist need not be anti-religious at all, but the Soviet atheism was more than mere lack of belief in God).