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== Atheistic communism and torture ==

== Atheistic communism and torture ==

[[Atheism]] was an integral component of Marxist-Leninist/Maoist [[communism|communist]] ideology (see: [[Atheism and communism]]).

[[Atheism]] was an integral component of Marxist-Leninist/Maoist [[communism|communist]] ideology (see: [[Atheism and communism]]).

The website Victimsofcommunism.org declares concerning atheistic communism and the use of torture:

The website Victimsofcommunism.org declares concerning atheistic communism and the use of torture:

{{cquote|Significantly, communists did not merely try to block or halt religious faith but to reverse it. This was particularly true for [[Romania]], even before the Nicolai Ceausescu era. This meant not just forbidding religious practice and jailing ministers and believers but employing torture to force them to renounce their faith. It was not enough to contain, silence, even punish believers in prison; it was decided they must be tortured in truly unimaginably degrading ways to attempt to undo religious faith.<ref>[http://victimsofcommunism.org/the-war-on-religion/ The War on religion]</ref>}}

{{cquote|Significantly, communists did not merely try to block or halt religious faith but to reverse it. This was particularly true for [[Romania]], even before the Nicolai Ceausescu era. This meant not just forbidding religious practice and jailing ministers and believers but employing torture to force them to renounce their faith. It was not enough to contain, silence, even punish believers in prison; it was decided they must be tortured in truly unimaginably degrading ways to attempt to undo religious faith.<ref>[http://victimsofcommunism.org/the-war-on-religion/ The War on religion]</ref>}}

==Iraq war==

==Iraq war==