re: #563 Blind Frog Belly White

Can’t agree on that. It was violence in the name of CONTROL, and in the countries like Russia where it occurred, the Church was competition for the State for control. It was primarily to wrest control from the church, much like Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries, and the establishment of the CofE.

I’m not talking about violence against organizations, such as the church. I’m talking about violence against believers for believing. USSR was an officially atheistic state. An atheistic terror-state’s violence against believers based on their mere beliefs is atheistic violence, just as violence against non-Christians (non-Muslims, non-Jews, non-Hindus. …) in a Christian (Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, …) theocracy would be Christian (Muslim, Jewish, Hindu…) violence.