# How Is Communism a Religion

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**Created:** [December 31, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-communism-a-religion/565901 "2010-12-31T01:49:43Z")\
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> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> An absence of theistic belief. According to the academic definition and the definition used by mots atheists themselves. This is becoming a childish loop. Atheism is not a belief. It contains no beliefs. It’s the absence of one specific belief. It contains no characteristics of religion whatsover.

I have addressed this previously. Your insistence on facts that can’t be established is just one of the characteristics you share with the religiulous.

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