- Imagine me having to lecture atheists on atheist history. Apparently they never heard of
THE LEAGUE OF MILITANT ATHEISTS , SOMETIMES "MILITANT GODLESS"
Stalin's official anti-religious fanatics who destroyed churches, closed churches, aided in the arrest, imprisonment and deaths of scores of thousands of clergy, nuns and monks, not to mention religious lay people.
Here's just a little bit of what they did:
The main target of the anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and 1930s was the Russian Orthodox Church, which had the largest number of faithful. Nearly all of its clergy, and many of its believers, were shot or sent to labor camps. Theological schools were closed, and church publications were prohibited. By 1939 only about 500 of over 50,000 churches remained open.
After Nazi Germany's attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, Joseph Stalin revived the Russian Orthodox Church to intensify patriotic support for the war effort. By 1957 about 22,000 Russian Orthodox churches had become active. But in 1959 Nikita Khrushchev initiated his own campaign against the Russian Orthodox Church and forced the closure of about 12,000 churches. By 1985 fewer than 7,000 churches remained active. Members of the church hierarchy were jailed or forced out, their places taken by docile clergy, many of whom had ties with the KGB.
"How can you be militant about an absence?"
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I know, right?
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