So much for the Church being too controlling.
In all seriousness. Has anyone else notice a hatred of Christianity and hatred of personal freedom and human rights often go hand in hand?
That all goes back to the writings of Marx and Engels.
Lenin continued on that theme by openly declaring that his followers “must combat religion—that is the A-B-C of all materialism, and consequently of Marxism”. Lenin’s first education commissar, a man called Anatoly Lunacharsky, openly declared, “We hate Christians and Christianity […] Down with ‘love of our neighbor’. What we want is hatred. We must know how to hate. Only then shall we conquer the universe.” That insanity survived to this day.