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I think Hakim has some videos on the USSR censorship. However as as an atheist myself I think suppression of religion is a good thing when does properly. In the USSR the suppression of of religion through their methods lead to the use of those religious individuals for right wing capitalist "resistance" and was a large reason for the decline into the current broken oligarchy..
i don't know what the GDR was doing, but damn it worked
Doesn't Germany automatically enroll you in your local church tithe unless you opt out of it? IIRC that's where a lot of their church affiliation data comes from, so it would make sense if the former East Germany simply wasn't doing that.
germany automatically does what now
It's called Kirchensteuer and it's deducted from your paycheck automatically if you're on the church rolls. You get put on the church rolls as a kid if your parents get you baptised. You can get yourself taken off but it's a whole process, the system is clearly designed to keep as many people paying the tax as possible.
Same in Sweden, and it's an extra 1% tax. Luckily it's easy to quit, you just need to sign a paper and send it in
hard disagree, when it comes to parts of reality that still aren't definitively answerable by science people will come up with silly and absurd ways to explain it. China's policy makes much more sense, banning religion is absurd, mostly because actually clearly defining it is either difficult or impossible
I agree with this. I think the best way prevent organized religion from undue influence over public policy, or over individuals in bad personal situations, is to provide reliable and complete public services that are typically provided by religious groups in capitalist countries. For example, addiction support groups. Religious persecution just feeds into martyr complexes.
yeah traditional religions are very much alive in rural china.