. . . By the estimation of leading religious demographers, over thirty million Christians perished under atheist regimes in the twentieth century. Tell this to friends who might insouciantly associate “secularism” with deliverance from religious violence. Tell this, too, to American history teachers, who rightly cover the horrors of Nazism and slavery, but often have far less to say about the Communist tragedy.
thomas albert howard | “God and the Ghosts of Communism” | July 13th, 2022
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Many of us are old enough to remember decades of the Communist rule in Europe and Asia.
I often tell people that we don’t have to wonder what an atheistic government would look like. As the article ably points out, we have many examples of them that were active during the lifetime of many of us. It is not pretty.