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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>}}
The Naxalites are a [[Marxist-Leninist]] group that have been designated as terrorists by the Government of India; because they seek to establish an [[atheist state]], they have inflicted violence against Christians, including beheading clergy in front of their wives and children.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pastor Beheaded by Radical Communists |url=https://www.icommittopray.com/request/1940/saisha-and-her-children |publisher=iCommitToPray.com |date=17 October 2019}}</ref>
For more information, please see: [[Atheistic communism and torture]]
For more information, please see: [[Atheistic communism and torture]]
== French Revolution and violence ==
== French Revolution and violence ==