Atheists not exposed to what Communism really is might have thought that Communists are atheists, but they were extremely wrong.
Communists have changed completely the meaning of many words, in order to obfuscate the true essence of Communism.
Communism was not atheism, on the contrary it was a kind of monotheistic religion practically indistinguishable from a Christian sect, but where everything was renamed and whose priests succeeded to obtain the supreme power in the state, unlike in the Western countries where religion is more or less separated from the state.
There is a huge list of exact correspondences between Christian concepts and Communist concepts. Communists had prophets (Marx, Engels and Lenin), holy books (i.e. the books written by the prophets), saints, martyrs (illegalist Communists), priests (the members of the Communist Party with party functions), a Pope (the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), Inquisitions, heretics (e.g. Trotsky or Tito), and so on.
All the religious institutions have been replaced by the Communists with exact counterparts having different names, e.g. the chaplains of the military units have been replaced by political officers through which the Communist Party controlled the military institutions, the religious education in schools has been replaced by a so-called political education which taught the Communist religion, and so on.
While Christians were manipulated to behave as their leaders desired with the promise that obeying the rules will ensure them a happy after-life, even if their present life sucks, the people in Communists countries were manipulated to behave as their leaders desired with the promise that obeying the rules will ensure a happy life for their grandchildren who will live in a true Communist society, even if their present life sucks because the present society is not truly communist.
There has never been any relationship between Atheism and Communism, except that the Communists have hijacked the word atheist, by claiming that the Communist religion is Atheism.
> There is a huge list of exact correspondences between Christian concepts and Communist concepts.
Those concepts are not particularly _christian_ in themselves, they're more constituents of an institutionalised belief system implementing hierarchical control points. It's proven efficient, and you find it in the Roman antique society, you find its equivalent in complex societies, even today in republics, in companies, etc.
Founders, constitutions or associates pacts, policies, fellows/staff members, executive managers, CEO or chairman, internal inspection, HR, etc.
Communists have changed completely the meaning of many words, in order to obfuscate the true essence of Communism.
Communism was not atheism, on the contrary it was a kind of monotheistic religion practically indistinguishable from a Christian sect, but where everything was renamed and whose priests succeeded to obtain the supreme power in the state, unlike in the Western countries where religion is more or less separated from the state.
There is a huge list of exact correspondences between Christian concepts and Communist concepts. Communists had prophets (Marx, Engels and Lenin), holy books (i.e. the books written by the prophets), saints, martyrs (illegalist Communists), priests (the members of the Communist Party with party functions), a Pope (the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), Inquisitions, heretics (e.g. Trotsky or Tito), and so on.
All the religious institutions have been replaced by the Communists with exact counterparts having different names, e.g. the chaplains of the military units have been replaced by political officers through which the Communist Party controlled the military institutions, the religious education in schools has been replaced by a so-called political education which taught the Communist religion, and so on.
While Christians were manipulated to behave as their leaders desired with the promise that obeying the rules will ensure them a happy after-life, even if their present life sucks, the people in Communists countries were manipulated to behave as their leaders desired with the promise that obeying the rules will ensure a happy life for their grandchildren who will live in a true Communist society, even if their present life sucks because the present society is not truly communist.
There has never been any relationship between Atheism and Communism, except that the Communists have hijacked the word atheist, by claiming that the Communist religion is Atheism.