:smile52: "Ganymede-style," I'm floored...
Atheism is also a faith. And not because it is a denial of faith, but because it is a faith in human capabilities.

A debatable point. After all, there are cynics and egoists who perceive others merely as a means for their own advancement in one field or another (such people really do exist, but what can you do—wrong upbringing by parents, or life simply hardened them) and are atheists at the same time (I have yet to meet a single Christian, or even just a religious person, who is an egoist). That is, "faith in human capabilities" is not entirely correct in this case. Faith in one's own capabilities also doesn't fit, for the egoist survives at the expense of others and is aware of it. The conclusion? Atheism is not a faith, and cannot be a faith; it is merely a naive delusion of the youth of "that time," since atheism appeared precisely along with Lenin. Atheism at that time was the same as online and TV entertainment is today: it's new, it's fashionable, it brainwashes. Forgive me for drifting from religion to history, BUT:
For a reason I personally find incomprehensible, the Freemasons and the Germans wanted to destroy Russia. The former are still pursuing this to this day. However, both understood (the former still understand ;)), that defeating Russia with weapons, i.e., physically, is IMPOSSIBLE. The Russian people were, to use computer terminology, simply cheat-level strong. And what was and remains the Russian strength? Strength of spirit! And where do Russians get such an inexhaustible strength of spirit? From faith! It is not for nothing that Russia is called a blessed country, and not for nothing was the phrase "the devil borrowed Russia from God" said, referring to the revolution. The Freemasons and Germans knew that Russia could not be defeated, it could only be corrupted from within, but HOW? First, it had to be beheaded, the Romanovs removed, especially Alexander the Liberator; we've already missed the boat on the liberation of the serfs, he won't sign another decree! And so it happened. Alexander II became a victim of a terrorist attack. The Freemasons are incredibly clever—who would suspect them when radicals organized everything? However, Russia continued to prosper, and then this Nicholas II, damn him, popped up!
- Now what do we do? The bombs have run out, there's nothing left to blow up!
- Oh! I have an idea!
That's when they found Lenin. I don't know how much money they paid him, but history speaks for itself: he agreed.
- Well, colleagues, congratulations! All that's left is to properly blacken the tsar's name so that the people follow Lenin. We must make people hate Nicholas! Any suggestions?
- A mass shooting!
- I don't understand... Please explain your thinking in more detail, esteemed colleague...
When the plan for Bloody Sunday went off with a bang, the confused chairman was satisfied.
- Wonderful! Now everything will go like clockwork!
Everything went ALMOST like clockwork. Not the entire population followed Lenin, and it wasn't because of the Imperial Guard. Experienced and wise old men, peasants, wouldn't even listen to Lenin; the Cossacks just chuckled. The youth followed Lenin. Yes, yes, specifically the youth.
- Well, we have the youth, that's already good.
- And what do we do with the rest?
- What do we do with them? We don't need them. Scrapping the peasants, the Cossacks to the wall.
But the Cossack and the peasant don't give up so easily! There you have your civil war!
- So what? We won the war anyway!
Screw you!
- You go screw yourself!
Then came the sudden taboo on God.
- Aha, exactly! "Opium for the people"—my idea! *smirks proudly*
However, even in such a perfectly thought-out plan, there were some glitches. The Germans and Freemasons created a monster that subsequently brought one of its "creators" down to the lowest of the low.
- Oh, to hell with the Germans. Let them sit in their Germany and shake their balls, and we're across the ocean—they won't reach us!
Care to bet a hundred bucks that they will?
- As if! I'm not going to bet with some random...
And rightly so. :p

Everything after that is clear. Atheism, the decay of morals, and fairy tales about the beautiful life "overseas"—this is the weapon the Freemasons (now without Germany :smile34: ) use to fight us.