First of all, congratulations to those religious leninists who reacted in adequate leninist manner. "Religion is a private matter", and therefore, deemed it not worthwhile to publically struggle for their religious stance and did not allow it to interfere with adequate political agitation.

I would also like to thank the anarchist allies who adequately stood by their maxim "No gods, no masters".

Second of all, I would like to warn some of our comrades who rushed to yell expletives at the mod team for the stance. Those same people demanding better nuance on the religious stance of the forum have no nuance of their own. Please, remember empathy toward your fellow human and stop to think if the person who you are talking to might be a religion survivor. That's right, the person you are talking to might have been a victim of religion, which you decided to aggressively defend. Religion threatens the mental, emotional and physical integrity of comrades throughout the globe. So stop to think for a minute that perhaps its not sensible to keep a liberal view towards religion because of your petty liberation theology sect. You are a part of a group, the group of religious people, who do have to walk on eggshells around people, because this group has a big history.

Speaking of liberation theology, marxism has had a clear stance on religion. I know during every controversy and disagreement in leftist circles, its quote-mining time, a sad state of affairs really. But its also my turn.

Specifically on liberation theology, from the Manifesto:

"As the parson has ever gone hand in hand with the landlord, so has Clerical Socialism with Feudal Socialism.

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the State? Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat."

From Lenin's "The Attitude of the Workers’ Party to Religion"

"Marxism has always regarded all modern religions and churches, and each and every religious organisation, as instruments of bourgeois reaction that serve to defend exploitation and to befuddle the working class." and "Marxism is materialism. As such, it is as relentlessly hostile to religion as was the materialism of the eighteenth-century Encyclopaedists or the materialism of Feuerbach."- So why are avowed marxists openly struggling for an anti-marxist stance on this forum? It is clear that they let their personal identity interfere with their politics. This is a kind of liberalism.

You may ask "Well starmeleon, what about agitating for atheism, isn't that wrong?"

"Does this mean that educational books against religion are harmful or unnecessary? No, nothing of the kind." - still Lenin

You may say though that we are not agitating properly, because the task of agitating against religion must be subordinated to the greater revolutionary class agitation. Let me remind you that this is a meme forum. Memes are the blunt instrument of internet agitation. It actually disappoints me that I have to explain things in the meme forum. Memes are the crudest form of agitation in this medium. We cannot compare it to anti-religious schoolbooks, but we can say the same for any kind of stance relayed through this forum. The meme policy and the bans are meant to have a didactic effect. So I ask the Christian agitators and the non-christian concern trolls to review their position.

There is another share of users that, instead of wrongly claiming that Marxism is actually friendly to religion, claim that hostility to religion was the reason for failure of marxist socialism in the 20th century. Needless to say, this is an entirely reactionary and unmarxist point of view that we also strongly reject.

As an unnecessary aside, I repudiate any comparison to the neo-atheists and the raytheism crowd, even though the accusation is opportunistically used by socialist christians whenever the irreligious nature of marxism is truthfully asserted. We recognize it as a liberal/neocon phenomenon spread by liberal/neocon authors, and I must say that I along with fellow mods, prevented r/socialism from writing an hagiography of reactionary pundit Christopher Hitchens back when he died in 2011 and we have fought the raytheist hordes.

Why are we doing this, though? Because there was Christian proselytizing in the forum, and it was highly upvoted, over 200+, before we caught it. Users are missing the fundamental aspect that communists do not proselityze religion and should not tolerate it. The resident missionaries should keep it to themselves. It is ok to agitate for communism in their religious context, it is inadmissible to agitate for Christianism in a communist context.

Finally, I would remind that this forum is not for debate. It is for crude memes and bludgeoning the unaligned noise. It is not without irony that we had to ban a bunch of people who chose to martyrize themselves for their religion, a cause that should, by all standards, not predicate participation in a political forum by any communist standard. So we are going to keep banning the droves of martyrs who then respond to us with shock images and rape threats. I assure you there will be no debate and that's the last I will say on the matter.

LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION COMRADES. ATLOL DID NOTHING WRONG.

As a bonus, have some anti-religious propaganda from spicy communists: