12 events with tag "atheism"
1748
ID: 530
La Mettrie's 'Man a Machine' - pure materialism: 'The soul is but an empty word'
ID: 530
1751
ID: 538
Diderot's Encyclopedia begins - systematic replacement of Christian worldview with hidden materialism
ID: 538
1770
ID: 576
D'Holbach's 'System of Nature' - pure mechanistic atheism: 'universe presents only matter and motion'
ID: 576
1841
ID: 827
March 1841
Bruno Bauer plans Archives of Atheism journal with Marx
ID: 827
1909
ID: 1181
May 1909
Lenin states: Marxism is 'absolutely atheistic and positively hostile to all religion... We must combat religion—that is the ABC of all materialism.'
ID: 1181
1913
ID: 1219
November 1913
Lenin writes to Maxim Gorky: 'All worship of a divinity is a necrophilia... There can be nothing more abominable than religion'
ID: 1219
1917
ID: 1250
Russian Revolution: Lenin's office featured kitsch ape statue on books including Origin of Species contemplating human skull
ID: 1250
1918
ID: 1266
Spring: Open campaign of terror launched against all religions in Soviet Russia
ID: 1266
1920
ID: 1288
October 1920
Lenin tells Russian Young Communist League: 'We do not believe in God... Our morality is entirely subordinated to the interests of the proletariat's class struggle.'
ID: 1288
1930
ID: 1375
Foster: 'Our party considers religion to be the opium of the people... we carry on propaganda for the liquidation of these prejudices'
ID: 1375
1932
ID: 1394
May 15, 1932
Stalin announces Five-Year Plan of Atheism with goal for May Day 1937: 'Not a single house of prayer shall remain in the USSR'
ID: 1394
1935
ID: 1430
Browder declares: 'It is quite clear that the Communist Party is the enemy of religion. We Communists try to do the opposite of what we hold religion does'
ID: 1430