# Indoctrinating atheistic and [[evolution|evolutionary]] ideology into students, and thus the public at large
# Indoctrinating atheistic and [[evolution|evolutionary]] ideology into students, and thus the public at large
# Undermining [[Christianity]] and other organized religion through widespread misinformation and [[deceit]]
# Undermining [[Christianity]] and other organized religion through widespread misinformation and [[deceit]]
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== History ==
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The atheist ''political'' movement originated during the [[French Revolution]], as [[Jacques Hébert]] and the [[Hébertists]] seeking to create a national atheist religion, the [[Cult of Reason]] in opposition to [[Robespierre]]'s theistic [[Cult of the Supreme Being]].
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Atheists' attempts to destroy faith were magnified in the 19th century, as philosophers such as [[Comte]] and [[Marx]] attempted to describe religion's downfall as inevitable, while [[Darwin]] and [[Freud]] attempted to twist science to support [[atheism]] in a [[pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] fashion. (Note that the vast majority of scientists remained Christian throughout the 18th-20th centuries.)