"[A]ny religious idea, any idea of any God at all, any flirtation even with a God is the most inexpressible foulness … the most dangerous foulness, the most shameful ‘infection.’"
— Antireligion

January 1, 1970

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Criticism of religion
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Vladimir Lenin, quoted in "Religion and the American Presidency", ed. Gastón Espinosa, New York: NY Columbia University, chap 10, Paul Kengor (2009) p. 370. November 1913 letter by Lenin.