"[A]ll worship of a divinity is a necrophilia."
— Antireligion

January 1, 1970

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Criticism of religion
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Vladimir Lenin as quoted in "Marxism-Leninism as the Civil Religion of Soviet Society: God’s Commissar", James Thrower, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, (1992), p. 39. Letter by Lenin (November 13 or 14, 1913) to Maxim Gorky.