re: #566 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

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.

I see what you’re saying, but I don’t agree with your conclusion. IMO the USSR’s attack on religion was all about consolidating total control over the population, wresting it from any historical institution that might compete for that control.

But I’m also not happy with referring to violence against non-Christians by Christians as ‘Christian Violence’ (for example).