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According to the [[University of Cambridge]], historically, the "most notable spread of [[atheism]] was achieved through the success of the 1917 [[Russian Revolution]], which brought the [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninists]] to power."<ref name="Marxism-Leninism">{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728215151/http://www.investigatingatheism.info/marxism.html|title=Investigating atheism: Marxism|publisher = [[University of Cambridge]]|quote=The most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 Russian Revolution, which brought the Marxist-Leninists to power. For the first time in history, atheism thus became the official ideology of a state.|year=2008|accessdate=July 17, 2014}}</ref> See also: [[Atheism and communism]] and [[Soviet atheism]]
Today, and in the recent past, several nations have mandated '''state atheism''', including the governments of the [[Soviet Union]],<ref name="Soviet Union">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qzkttrhVe9gC&pg=PA125&dq=soviet+union+state+atheism&hl=en&ei=ib6iTf3AHO3OiAKIyMj5Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q=soviet%20union%20state%20atheism&f=false|title =Politics, ethics and challenges to democracy in 'new independent states'|publisher=[[Berghahn Books]]|quote=During the past 150 years in Azerbaijan, Islam has experienced an ascendancy over the official Orthodoxy of the Russian Empire and, then, the state atheism of the Soviet Union.|author=Tʻinatʻin Bočorišvili, William Sweet, Daniel R. Ahern|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref><ref name="USSR">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8pciFcaGXR0C&pg=PA379&dq=soviet+union+state+atheism&hl=en&ei=Xr2iTen1EIPegQfJgf3ZBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFEQ6AEwCDgK#v=onepage&q=soviet%20union%20state%20atheism&f=false|title =Russian postmodernism: new perspectives on post-Soviet culture|publisher=[[Berghahn Books]]|quote=The seven decades of Soviet atheism, whether one calls it "mass atheism," "scientific atheism," "state atheism," was unquestionably a new phenomenon in world history.|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref> [[Albania]],<ref name="Documentatie Bureau voor Oost-Europees Recht">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aAtQZ0vjf5gC&pg=PA18&dq=The+State+recognizes+no+religion,+and+supports+and+carries+out+atheistic+propaganda+in+order+to+implant+a+scientific+materialistic+world+outlook+in+people&hl=en&ei=rVCWTeC9Eoz2gAed572-CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false|title =The Constitutions of the Communist World|author=William B. Simons, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden|publisher=[[Springer]]|quote='''Article 37.''' The State recognizes no religion and supports and carries out atheist propaganda in order to implant a scientific materialist world outlook in people.|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref><ref name="Robert Elsie">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aAtQZ0vjf5gC&pg=PA18&dq=The+State+recognizes+no+religion,+and+supports+and+carries+out+atheistic+propaganda+in+order+to+implant+a+scientific+materialistic+world+outlook+in+people&hl=en&ei=rVCWTeC9Eoz2gAed572-CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false|title =A Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology, and Folk culture|author=Robert Elsie|publisher=[[New York University Press]]|quote=Article 37 of the Albanian constitution of 1976 stipulated, "The State recognizes no religion and supports and carries out atheist propaganda in order to implant a scientific materialist world outlook in people."|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref><ref name="Richard Felix Staar">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ugeMgomY7hAC&pg=PA13&dq=The+State+recognizes+no+religion,+and+supports+and+carries+out+atheistic+propaganda+in+order+to+implant+a+scientific+materialistic+world+outlook+in+people&hl=en&ei=rVCWTeC9Eoz2gAed572-CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=The%20State%20recognizes%20no%20religion%2C%20and%20supports%20and%20carries%20out%20atheistic%20propaganda%20in%20order%20to%20implant%20a%20scientific%20materialistic%20world%20outlook%20in%20people&f=false|title =Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe|author=Richard Felix Staar|publisher=[[Hoover Institution|The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University]]|quote=By 1976 all places of worship had been closed. However, the regime has had to admit that religion still maintains a following among Albanians. In order to suppress religious life, the following article has been included in the 1976 constitution: "The state recognizes no religion and supports and carries out atheistic propoganda to implant the scientific materialistic world outlook in people" (Article 37). In its antireligious moves, the regime has gone so far as to order persons to change their names if they are of a religious origin.|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref> [[China]],<ref name="China">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X49uEF5XUX0C&pg=PA108&dq=state+atheism+china&hl=en&ei=c8GiTaLkEIXegQet67XaBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false|title =China in the 21st century|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|quote=China is still officially an atheist country, but many religions are growing rapidly, including evangelical Christianity (estimates of how many Chinese have converted to some form of Protestantism range widely, but at least tens of millions have done so) and various hybrid sects that combine elements of traditional creeds and belief systems (Buddhism mixed with local folk cults, for example).|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref><ref name="Atheist State">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BY4YAQAAMAAJ&q=north+korea+atheist+state&dq=north+korea+atheist+state&hl=en&ei=wUabTedhhMuBB9_U3I4H&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ|title =The State of Religion Atlas|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|quote=Atheism continues to be the official position of the governments of China, North Korea and Cuba.|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref> [[North Korea]],<ref name="Atheist State"/><ref name="State Atheism">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YG2AFyFppJQC&pg=PA933&dq=north+korea+atheist+state&hl=en&ei=wUabTedhhMuBB9_U3I4H&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=north%20korea%20atheist%20state&f=false|title =World and Its Peoples: Eastern and Southern Asia|publisher=[[Marshall Cavendish]]|quote=North Korea is officially an atheist state in which almost the entire population is nonreligious.|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref>, [[Vietnam]]<ref>Jan Dodd, Mark Lewis, Ron Emmons. The Rough Guide to Vietnam, Vol. 4, 2003. p. 509: "After 1975, the Marxist-Leninist government of reunified Vietnam declared the state atheist while theoretically allowing people the right to practice their religion under the constitution."</ref> and [[Cuba]].<ref name="Atheist State"/><ref name="Cuba">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EkIvbxefBNsC&pg=PA43&dq=cuba+state+atheism&hl=en&ei=dMCiTdTrHYe_gQfz0_naBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=cuba%20state%20atheism&f=false|title =Freeing God's Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights|publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]]|quote=Cuba is the only country in the Americas that has attempted to impose state atheism, and since the 1960s onward its jails have been filled with pastors and other believers.|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref>
Historically, state atheism has been extremely repressive (see: [[Atheism and mass murder]] and [[Atheistic communism and torture]]).
In addition, atheistic regimes have employed indoctrination and [[pseudoscience]] to promote their ideology ([[Atheist indoctrination]] and [[Atheism and science]] and [[Atheism and the rejection of science]]).
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Atheism}}
[[Category:Atheism]]
[[Category:Religion and Politics]]
Today, and in the recent past, several nations have mandated '''state atheism''', including the governments of the [[Soviet Union]],<ref name="Soviet Union">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qzkttrhVe9gC&pg=PA125&dq=soviet+union+state+atheism&hl=en&ei=ib6iTf3AHO3OiAKIyMj5Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q=soviet%20union%20state%20atheism&f=false|title =Politics, ethics and challenges to democracy in 'new independent states'|publisher=[[Berghahn Books]]|quote=During the past 150 years in Azerbaijan, Islam has experienced an ascendancy over the official Orthodoxy of the Russian Empire and, then, the state atheism of the Soviet Union.|author=Tʻinatʻin Bočorišvili, William Sweet, Daniel R. Ahern|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref><ref name="USSR">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8pciFcaGXR0C&pg=PA379&dq=soviet+union+state+atheism&hl=en&ei=Xr2iTen1EIPegQfJgf3ZBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFEQ6AEwCDgK#v=onepage&q=soviet%20union%20state%20atheism&f=false|title =Russian postmodernism: new perspectives on post-Soviet culture|publisher=[[Berghahn Books]]|quote=The seven decades of Soviet atheism, whether one calls it "mass atheism," "scientific atheism," "state atheism," was unquestionably a new phenomenon in world history.|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref> [[Albania]],<ref name="Documentatie Bureau voor Oost-Europees Recht">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aAtQZ0vjf5gC&pg=PA18&dq=The+State+recognizes+no+religion,+and+supports+and+carries+out+atheistic+propaganda+in+order+to+implant+a+scientific+materialistic+world+outlook+in+people&hl=en&ei=rVCWTeC9Eoz2gAed572-CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false|title =The Constitutions of the Communist World|author=William B. Simons, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden|publisher=[[Springer]]|quote='''Article 37.''' The State recognizes no religion and supports and carries out atheist propaganda in order to implant a scientific materialist world outlook in people.|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref><ref name="Robert Elsie">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aAtQZ0vjf5gC&pg=PA18&dq=The+State+recognizes+no+religion,+and+supports+and+carries+out+atheistic+propaganda+in+order+to+implant+a+scientific+materialistic+world+outlook+in+people&hl=en&ei=rVCWTeC9Eoz2gAed572-CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false|title =A Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology, and Folk culture|author=Robert Elsie|publisher=[[New York University Press]]|quote=Article 37 of the Albanian constitution of 1976 stipulated, "The State recognizes no religion and supports and carries out atheist propaganda in order to implant a scientific materialist world outlook in people."|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref><ref name="Richard Felix Staar">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ugeMgomY7hAC&pg=PA13&dq=The+State+recognizes+no+religion,+and+supports+and+carries+out+atheistic+propaganda+in+order+to+implant+a+scientific+materialistic+world+outlook+in+people&hl=en&ei=rVCWTeC9Eoz2gAed572-CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=The%20State%20recognizes%20no%20religion%2C%20and%20supports%20and%20carries%20out%20atheistic%20propaganda%20in%20order%20to%20implant%20a%20scientific%20materialistic%20world%20outlook%20in%20people&f=false|title =Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe|author=Richard Felix Staar|publisher=[[Hoover Institution|The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University]]|quote=By 1976 all places of worship had been closed. However, the regime has had to admit that religion still maintains a following among Albanians. In order to suppress religious life, the following article has been included in the 1976 constitution: "The state recognizes no religion and supports and carries out atheistic propoganda to implant the scientific materialistic world outlook in people" (Article 37). In its antireligious moves, the regime has gone so far as to order persons to change their names if they are of a religious origin.|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref> [[China]],<ref name="China">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X49uEF5XUX0C&pg=PA108&dq=state+atheism+china&hl=en&ei=c8GiTaLkEIXegQet67XaBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false|title =China in the 21st century|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|quote=China is still officially an atheist country, but many religions are growing rapidly, including evangelical Christianity (estimates of how many Chinese have converted to some form of Protestantism range widely, but at least tens of millions have done so) and various hybrid sects that combine elements of traditional creeds and belief systems (Buddhism mixed with local folk cults, for example).|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref><ref name="Atheist State">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BY4YAQAAMAAJ&q=north+korea+atheist+state&dq=north+korea+atheist+state&hl=en&ei=wUabTedhhMuBB9_U3I4H&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ|title =The State of Religion Atlas|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|quote=Atheism continues to be the official position of the governments of China, North Korea and Cuba.|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref> [[North Korea]],<ref name="Atheist State"/><ref name="State Atheism">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YG2AFyFppJQC&pg=PA933&dq=north+korea+atheist+state&hl=en&ei=wUabTedhhMuBB9_U3I4H&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=north%20korea%20atheist%20state&f=false|title =World and Its Peoples: Eastern and Southern Asia|publisher=[[Marshall Cavendish]]|quote=North Korea is officially an atheist state in which almost the entire population is nonreligious.|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref>, [[Vietnam]]<ref>Jan Dodd, Mark Lewis, Ron Emmons. The Rough Guide to Vietnam, Vol. 4, 2003. p. 509: "After 1975, the Marxist-Leninist government of reunified Vietnam declared the state atheist while theoretically allowing people the right to practice their religion under the constitution."</ref> and [[Cuba]].<ref name="Atheist State"/><ref name="Cuba">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EkIvbxefBNsC&pg=PA43&dq=cuba+state+atheism&hl=en&ei=dMCiTdTrHYe_gQfz0_naBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=cuba%20state%20atheism&f=false|title =Freeing God's Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights|publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]]|quote=Cuba is the only country in the Americas that has attempted to impose state atheism, and since the 1960s onward its jails have been filled with pastors and other believers.|accessdate = 2011-03-05}}</ref>
Historically, state atheism has been extremely repressive (see: [[Atheism and mass murder]] and [[Atheistic communism and torture]]).
In addition, atheistic regimes have employed indoctrination and [[pseudoscience]] to promote their ideology ([[Atheist indoctrination]] and [[Atheism and science]] and [[Atheism and the rejection of science]]).
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Atheism}}
[[Category:Atheism]]
[[Category:Religion and Politics]]