There are other ideological similarities as well. All three tend to be ethnocentric, viewing the world around them as being inherently evil, and all three tend to see everything in simplistic, dualistic terms: Us vs. them, good vs. evil, etc. This is an important fact to be remembered when religious zealots today insist that everyone follow the absolutes of their religion. Properly understood, atheism stands for the principles of reason, freedom and individual rights. It is opposed to all forms of totalitarian ideology. Yes, there are individual atheists who are communists. However, the attempt to link all atheists and all communists under the same ideological banner completely falls apart when the facts are revealed. But then, what does faith have to do with the facts?
As in the case of Michael Newdow, perhaps?
What a truckload of Bravo Sierra!
Get a load of this one, guys. So all of those atheistic Communists were really opposed to totalitariansim, eh? Must be slow over at DU today.
That is a load of total and complete hogwash. Whenever atheism has become a political force it has been totalitarian.
It's that "properly understood" thing that is problematic.
Atheism throws the baby out with the bathwater. Lots of nafarious things move into the resulting void.
Like drunk driving and car crashes, atheism and nihilistic totalitarian idiocies just seem to go together. Which is not to say some drunks don't manage to drive home safely and some atheists are harmless. But you have to admit there is a correlation, no?