And drops God from the Pledge of Allegiance ....
“We must combat religion. That is the A-B-C of all materialism, and consequently of Marxism.” …If we see the Democratic Party as the same as Lenin’s Social Democratic Labor Party of Russia (later the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), we would understand exactly what we are facing and how to fight it.
“The combating of religion cannot be confined to abstract ideological preaching, and it must not be reduced to such preaching. It must be linked up with the concrete practice of the class movement, which aims at eliminating the social roots of religion.” …
— Lenin, “The Attitude of the Workers’ Party to Religion”, 05/13/1909