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Originally Posted by ahi
... I also have the pleasure of coming from a country where atheism was the officially supported state religion for decades... so I'm sure you'll understand why I have as little enthusiasm for it, as you do for functional and still (whether for better or worse) relevant forms of spirituality that you call "mythology" in order to purposefully malign by unorthodoxly closely associating it with beliefs that are near-universally considered outmoded.
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Heh, I usually try to keep personal details off the web, but since my credentials are challenged...:
I was also born in a land far, far away (a little South-East of the Land of the Magyars:-), where "The People" ruled, and God was a General Secretary.
Thus, I can also argue from experience, that a significant reason for Communist hostility to religion, is that all "true believers" are, by their very nature, hostile to competing belief systems.
Communism exhibited "religious" traits, from its focus on personal belief demands (rather than being satisfied with civil conduct rules,) to the creation of its own hagiography, to its discouragement of association with "non-believers," to its suppression and persecution of "non-approved" scientific knowledge (see Lysenkoism), etc..
Communism was, so to speak, a "jealous God."
In any case, even though you are evidently a fish, and I am a mammal, I very much enjoy you personally, and look forward to your posts.
Therefore, I now retire to look for lice.