Thought Police

All religion is backwards and intolerant of new ideas. It promotes absolute devotion to a tyrannous god which wishes to enslave humanity and would punish us with eternal torment if we refused to follow him. It divides the people into opposing groups who all believe that their religion is the complete truth. It holds back progress and advancement and justifies it by saying "God does not want this!". Religion has always been hateful and intolerant. Even today many Christians are radically opposed to homosexuality, and in some parts of the Muslim world they would even dare to murder people for such things. Then there's Catholicism, which promotes absolute loyalty to the Pope, a theocratic absolute monarch. And now leftists are saying we should just accept this and tolerate religion? That's ridiculous. We have always opposed religion. Atheism was once a crucial part of Communism and sometimes leftism as a whole. The collapse of the USSR has made us desperate for support from whatever group we can find. Even those who would defend the USSR and believe that it was the greatest achievement of Socialism would not support state-endorsed atheism. It just amazes me how even the most radical of leftists treat religion as if it is completely harmless.

By the way, I don't support any laws against religion. I just want the socialist state to endorse Atheism and be very critical of religion. I'm not going to go around arresting people because they believe in god. If someone wishes to pray in their own home, then they may do so. Organised religion however just forces those beliefs upon others, and so it should be completely opposed by us leftists.

Possibly, but only to followers of organised religions. As I said before, someone who prays to god in their own home wouldn't have any problem. The state atheism and anti-theism would be mostly to combat organised religions such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism etc. A secular state would not be all that bad, as long as it is very much anti-clerical. Many leftists I've met seem to think that the state should be completely pro-religion, no matter what form it takes. That is not secularism, that's a state with a bias towards religion. Too many people expect Atheists to just ignore religion, when the very nature of it means that we have it forced upon us wherever we go.

Rename group to "The Thought Police".

Also, why do you talk of your splendid workers' state in such a way that the reader is led to assume that it is an entity separate from the working class? And why must the state be so intolerant of religion? What you should be is anti-clerical, yo.

I don't want to police people's thoughts. People can believe in religious nonsense if they want, just as they can believe in mistaken scientific or economic doctrines. The point is not to ban wrong ideas, but to promote correct ideas.

I am anti-clerical in the sense that I am opposed to both their religion and the power of clericy. Nonetheless I never propose to have anyone censored for having ridiculous ideas, though I can't speak for anyone else in this group (I just joined!).

The thing to do is make an atheist religion just like the French Cult of Reason.