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Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
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scribed the atheist propaganda that Communists must spread against
religion:
Our Programme is based entirely on the scientific, and moreover the mate-
rialist, world-outlook. . . . Our propaganda necessarily includes the propa-
ganda of atheism; the publication of the appropriate scientific literature,
which the autocratic feudal government has hitherto strictly forbidden
and persecuted, must now form one of the fields of our Party work. We
shall now probably have to follow the advice Engels once gave to the
German Socialists: to translate and widely disseminate the literature of the
eighteenth-century French Enlighteners and atheists. 112
Note that Lenin said the battle Marxists much wage against religion
has to start by disseminating "scientific literature" and the writings of
the 18th-century Enlightenment atheists. "Scientific literature" means
theories that impose materialism in the guise of science (such as
Darwinism); and these "French Enlighteners" include Diderot and
D'Holbach, who wrote materialist propaganda against religion long be-
fore Marx.
Among Communists, this method Lenin taught is still in use. If we
examine certain publishing houses, scientific magazines and media in-
stitutions throughout the world, we clearly see that Marxists are behind
publications that espouse Darwinist and Enlightenment philosophy.

Communism's Hidden Hostility to Religionı

While Marxists are not in power, their currents of thought don't
usually follow a definite aggressive policy against religion. It's even pos-
sible for some Communists to seem to show respect for religion and its
adherents. What is the purpose for this moderation?
The answer to this question can be found among the writings of
Lenin. In "The Attitude of the Worker's Party to Religion," he wrote that,
starting with the interpretations and practices of experts like Marx and
Engels, war must never be openly declared against religion. This was an
unnecessary "gamble of a political war." Other materialists (for exam-
ple, the anarchists or "bourgeois atheists") had voiced hostility to reli-
gion and initiated anti-religious campaigns. Lenin found their activities