ARE COMMUNISTS ATHEISTS?
Sir,-"Enquirer" asks whether it is not a fact that all members of the Communist Party are atheists. Here is Stalin’s reply to a similar question: "Speaking formally, we hav. no conditions of Party membership which demand that a candidate for Party membership shall be an atheist. The conditions of membership in our Party are: acceptance cf the programme and rules of the Party; absolute subordination to. the decisions of the Party and its organs; payment of membership dues; and membership in one of the Party locals." Lenin admitted the possibility of accepting- the entry into the Party not only of "all workers who still retain faith in God," but even of priests on the one obvious condition that "they come to co-operate with us in our work, conscientiously perform Party work, and do not oppose the Party programme."
J.
W.
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 179, 27 November 1942, Page 3
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