Sentence examples for official atheism from inspiring English sources
The official atheism of Communist days, when believers were hounded, jailed and killed, is long gone.
We stopped in Yarkand, where the residents appeared to be deeply devout despite China's official atheism.
How many Chinese reject the state's official atheism is hard to quantify, but numbers suggest a return to widespread religious belief.
Asia has by far the largest number of people who claim to have no religion; China's official atheism explains much of that.
When he returned to Moscow in 1919 to resume his work, he refused to renounce or conceal his priesthood in the face of official atheism.
Why did the Russians remember Holy Mother Russia after all those decades of official Soviet atheism?
Religious belief was marginalised under the official state atheism of the Soviet Union and its satellites.
He inherited from his predecessor, Aleksey II (reigned 1990 2008), a church that had experienced revitalization and tremendous growth following the end of official state atheism in Russia.
Although he also recalled the decades of official Soviet atheism, he said, "You fought, endured, and became worthy of that calling that you received from Constantinople".
There are also many minority religious groups, such as Muslims, Protestants, and Jews, and in recent times communist governments' official encouragement of atheism, together with a general trend toward secularism, has eroded membership in the traditional faiths.
