# How Is Communism a Religion

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> [@TriPolar](#):
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> It’s a religion in the same way that Atheism is a religion.

Nonsense. Atheism isn’t like Communism/religion at all. It fits the facts, it doesn’t make any claims beyond disbelief in one particular category of supernatural creature. Atheism has no dogma, no agenda. It’s not a belief system.

The two aren’t comparable at all.

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