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Originally Posted by letmein

It's not the same thing. The Soviets BANNED religion. No one talking about BANNING it. They're merely imagining a society that has no use for it.

Keep Up.

The point under discussion is that if there were no religion, some other ideology would take its place and it would not necessarily be for the better. In response to Zee's post I gave Russian Communism as an example of an ideological concept that could not and did not work in practice, and in fact delivered a far worse society than one where people were free to worship what the hell they wanted to.

The Soviets did NOT ban Religion, they never had the power to do that, they merely banned people from overtly worshipping and practising religion within Russia.

Now you need to get out of the slow lane.