Museum of Atheism

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Down with God! How the Soviet Union took on religion

Hundreds of atheist museums were established in the Soviet Union’s former churches, synagogues, and mosques.

The museums systematically depicted religion of all kinds as a historical force for ignorance, racism and anti-semitism, and cruelty. Its only worthy replacement, they argued, was science

Some of the most famous were in Moscow and St. Petersburg’s majestic former Orthodox cathedrals. But the museums existed throughout the country and across houses of worship from all religions, including Ukrainian Islamic mosques and Siberian Buddhist temples.

Anti-religious museums adopted a three-prong line of attack. According to Paine, they would expose “the crimes and tricks of the clergy”; promote science as a modern analog to religion; and demonstrate how religion had been the “handmaiden of bourgeois capitalism.”

Marx said religion was the opium of the people – and in the Soviet Union, atheism became government policy.

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...the-soviet-union-took-on-religion-in-pictures

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soviet-antireligious-museums-of-atheism
 
The Soviet's over-reaction to religion is in part based on the historical association between the church and the tsar, and any lingering vestiges of corruption therein - and partly because the Bolsheviks were totalitarians; they did not want any social or political institutions vying with the authority of the Communist Party.

Because of their Marxist ideology, they were also genuinely scientific materialists, but that does not in and of itself explain the over reaction.
 
Cypress said:
The Soviet's over reaction to religion is in part based on the historical association between the church and the tsar, and any lingering vestiges of corruption therein - and partly because the Bolsheviks were totalitarians; they did not want any social or political institutions vying with the authority of the Communist Party.
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They seem to have failed to understand that the more you make something forbidden and "scary," the more alluring it may become.

Here is an actual example of an "atheist museum" that doesn't need to call itself that, because it displays reality without the jargon and rancor.

https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/saurischian-dinosaurs/tyrannosaurus-rex
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
They seem to have failed to understand that the more you make something forbidden and "scary," the more alluring it may become.

Here is an actual example of an "atheist museum" that doesn't need to call itself that, because it displays reality without the jargon and rancor.

https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/saurischian-dinosaurs/tyrannosaurus-rex
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To me, that is not an atheist museum. Atheism is strictly speaking the disbelief in theism.

Scientific facts and evidence are not the strict purview of atheism. They are the purview of all reasonable people.

However, I agree that the bible thumper contingent with their creation science museum should be mercilessly mocked, and I have the posts to prove it!
 
Cypress said:
Down with God! How the Soviet Union took on religion

Hundreds of atheist museums were established in the Soviet Union’s former churches, synagogues, and mosques.

The museums systematically depicted religion of all kinds as a historical force for ignorance, racism and anti-semitism, and cruelty. Its only worthy replacement, they argued, was science

Some of the most famous were in Moscow and St. Petersburg’s majestic former Orthodox cathedrals. But the museums existed throughout the country and across houses of worship from all religions, including Ukrainian Islamic mosques and Siberian Buddhist temples.

Anti-religious museums adopted a three-prong line of attack. According to Paine, they would expose “the crimes and tricks of the clergy”; promote science as a modern analog to religion; and demonstrate how religion had been the “handmaiden of bourgeois capitalism.”

Marx said religion was the opium of the people – and in the Soviet Union, atheism became government policy.

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...the-soviet-union-took-on-religion-in-pictures

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soviet-antireligious-museums-of-atheism
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'Replacing Religion with Science' as a Government policy?






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Cypress said:
Down with God! How the Soviet Union took on religion

Hundreds of atheist museums were established in the Soviet Union’s former churches, synagogues, and mosques.

The museums systematically depicted religion of all kinds as a historical force for ignorance, racism and anti-semitism, and cruelty. Its only worthy replacement, they argued, was science

Some of the most famous were in Moscow and St. Petersburg’s majestic former Orthodox cathedrals. But the museums existed throughout the country and across houses of worship from all religions, including Ukrainian Islamic mosques and Siberian Buddhist temples.

Anti-religious museums adopted a three-prong line of attack. According to Paine, they would expose “the crimes and tricks of the clergy”; promote science as a modern analog to religion; and demonstrate how religion had been the “handmaiden of bourgeois capitalism.”

Marx said religion was the opium of the people – and in the Soviet Union, atheism became government policy.

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...the-soviet-union-took-on-religion-in-pictures

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soviet-antireligious-museums-of-atheism
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Marx was right. Religious people are dumb.
 
Cypress said:
The Soviet's over-reaction to religion is in part based on the historical association between the church and the tsar, and any lingering vestiges of corruption therein - and partly because the Bolsheviks were totalitarians; they did not want any social or political institutions vying with the authority of the Communist Party.

Because of their Marxist ideology, they were also genuinely scientific materialists, but that does not in and of itself explain the over reaction.
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Cy: "... the historical association between the church and the tsar"
Jack: More like the 'Big Chief' and the 'Witch Doctor'.
 
Jack said:
Cy: "... the historical association between the church and the tsar"
Jack: More like the 'Big Chief' and the 'Witch Doctor'.
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The point is, extremism in all it's variety is a threat to human freedom.

The Soviet Union advertised itself as the world's first atheist state based on the principles of scientific materialism.

But Soviet genetics research, not to mention art and literature lagged and atrophied prescisly because of the dogmatic hostility to intellectual and cultural pluralism.
 
Cypress said:
The point is, extremism in all it's variety is a threat to human freedom.

The Soviet Union advertised itself as the world's first atheist state based on the principles of scientific materialism.

But Soviet genetics research, not to mention art and literature lagged and atrophied prescisly because of the dogmatic hostility to intellectual and cultural pluralism.
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Yes, 'Science' is a threat to Human Freedom. 'Long Live Religion!'.
 
When religious leaders across the country choose to be on the side of liars, cheats, racists, and anti-democracy thugs- I lose respect for religions.

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