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[[Image:Stalin-140508 27880t.jpg|right|235px|thumb|[[Joseph Stalin]], the Premier of the [[Soviet Union]] from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953, founded the [[League of Militant Atheists]], whose chief aim was to propagate militant [[atheism]] and eradicate [[religion]].<ref name=Hesemann-Strieber>{{cite book|author=Michael Hesemann, Whitley Strieber|title=The Fatima Secret|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=tx-BEpkJBq8C&pg=PT107&dq=Joseph+Stalin+militant+atheism&hl=en&ei=-DeRTpLrJoPi0QHo88wi&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=Joseph%20Stalin%20militant%20atheism&f=false|quote=Lenin's death in 1924 was followed by the rise of Joseph Stalin, "the man of steel," who founded the "Union of Militant Atheists," whose chief aim was to spread atheism and eradicate religion. In the following years it devastated hundreds of churches, destroyed old icons and relics, and persecuted the clergy with unimaginable brutality.|publisher=Random House Digital, Inc.|date=2000|accessdate=09 October 2011}}</ref>]]

[[Image:Stalin-140508 27880t.jpg|right|235px|thumb|[[Joseph Stalin]], the Premier of the [[Soviet Union]] from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953, founded the [[League of Militant Atheists]], whose chief aim was to propagate militant [[atheism]] and eradicate [[religion]].<ref name=Hesemann-Strieber>{{cite book|author=Michael Hesemann, Whitley Strieber|title=The Fatima Secret|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=tx-BEpkJBq8C&pg=PT107&dq=Joseph+Stalin+militant+atheism&hl=en&ei=-DeRTpLrJoPi0QHo88wi&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=Joseph%20Stalin%20militant%20atheism&f=false|quote=Lenin's death in 1924 was followed by the rise of Joseph Stalin, "the man of steel," who founded the "Union of Militant Atheists," whose chief aim was to spread atheism and eradicate religion. In the following years it devastated hundreds of churches, destroyed old icons and relics, and persecuted the clergy with unimaginable brutality.|publisher=Random House Digital, Inc.|date=2000|accessdate=09 October 2011}}</ref>]]

The secular left is a group of [[leftist|left]]-wing secularists. They have started to get worldwide following, including the The New Zealand Association of Rationalists & Humanists.<ref>http://www.reason.org.nz/index.php/about-us</ref>. They claim to support "strict government secularism"<ref>http://www.secularleft.us/about</ref>.  

The secular left is a group of [[leftist|left]]-wing secularists. They have started to get worldwide following, including the The New Zealand Association of Rationalists & Humanists.<ref>http://www.reason.org.nz/index.php/about-us</ref>. They claim to support "strict government secularism"<ref>http://www.secularleft.us/about</ref>.  

==Beliefs==

==Beliefs of the secular left ==

1.They are actively opposed to any role of religion in politics or in government and so support the separation of church and state. Ironically, they are not in opposition to the religious left and don't challenge their religion yet do attack the right wing over religion..This was seen in Australia, Tony Abbott, a conservative Catholic was berated by the Secular Left present in Australia. Yet the secular left didn’t condemn the Uniting Church minister from Queensland who stood as a left-wing minister<ref>http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2010/08/22/more-mischief-from-the-religious-left/</ref>.

1.They are actively opposed to any role of religion in politics or in government and so support the separation of church and state. Ironically, they are not in opposition to the religious left and don't challenge their religion yet do attack the right wing over religion..This was seen in Australia, Tony Abbott, a conservative Catholic was berated by the Secular Left present in Australia. Yet the secular left didn’t condemn the Uniting Church minister from Queensland who stood as a left-wing minister<ref>http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2010/08/22/more-mischief-from-the-religious-left/</ref>.