Not for the first time does the revolutionary movement proclaim its atheistic origin and character. The case has been very clearly put as regards Russia by the notorious Trotsky, in an article on the Tasks of Communist Education in the “International Press Correspondence” (English edition, Berlin). This leader in the Soviet Government writes: ― “We are of the opinion that atheism, as an inseparable element of the materialistic view of life, is a necessary condition for the theoretical education of the revolutionist. He who believes in another world is not capable of concentrating all his passion on the transformation of this one.
As an interpretation of the attitude of the Russian Soviet toward religion, in any honorable sense of the word, the statement leaves nothing to be said. The principles and the outlook of Communism supply no room for belief in God; and it is, therefore, not surprising that the agents of the system are men, whose words and deeds are of the earth, and tend to disintegration and death.
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