Eastern Bloc - Religion

Religion

Under the state atheism of many Eastern Bloc nations, religion was actively suppressed.

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Famous quotes containing the word religion:

    “Intolerance respecting other people’s religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people’s art.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this—that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made—not to understand—but to feel—as crime.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

    “... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else’s morality.”
    —Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)