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Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
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Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party on
September 7th, 1953, said while describing the struggle the communists
were to wage against religion that they could alienate people from reli-
gion by carrying out "a substantial, effective and masterfully orches-
trated scientific, atheist propaganda." 123
But Khrushchev's claim that "scientific propaganda will alienate
people from religion" is one of the biggest delusions of communists.
Science is the art of appreciating God's superior wisdom. The advance-
ments in all the fields of science have shown people at every turn the un-
deniable truth that is Creation. It is for this reason that since the second
half of the 20th century, the masses have flocked towards religion while
the materialist Darwinist ideologies have sunken into history.

Maoism's Hostility to Religion
Mao, Leninism's and Stalinism's representative in China, nurtured
hostility to religion and implemented it in his policies. One of his com-
ments on religion he clearly displays his fanaticism:
. . . [B]ut of course, religion is poison. It has two great defects: It undermines
the race . . . [and] retards the progress of the country. Tibet and Mongolia
have both been poisoned by it. 124
When Mao came to power, he instituted a war against religion and
its practitioners. But this was done in "secret," as Lenin's Communists
had done. The Communist party initiated a policy called the "Three self
movement," meaning that all religious institutions must be structured so
that they could be "self supporting, self administrating, and self organ-
ized." This policy appeared to be based on granting freedom of religion,
but it was actually a campaign designed to destroy religion completely.
All religious institutions and places of worship throughout the coun-
try—Confucian and Buddhist temples, mosques and Christian
churches—came under the control of state controlled management bod-
ies. Within a short time, these religious institutions became "Maoist prop-
aganda centers." A statement given to the American International
Commission on Religious Freedom on March 16, 2000 by a Chinese
Christian by the name of Harry Wu says: