[buwaya]

Take that as you will.

I believe atheism is as much a religious concept as any religion, based on a faith in an unprovable premise.

There is atheism without communism.

But communisms goals are indeed “religious”.

[Olog-hai]

As far as “atheism without communism” goes, there is this:

“We said at the beginning of this foreword that Marxism cannot he conceived without atheism. We would add here that atheism without Marxism is incomplete and inconsistent.”

— Foreword to Lenin’s “Religion”

The communists do not take that notion for granted.

“From a Marxist viewpoint, an atheistic mind is already three-fourths conquered.”

— The Naked Communist, chapter 12

A mere heresy of an existing religion makes its holders still think they are part of whatever religion it claims to be a tenet of. Communism makes no such claim.