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I visited Soviet Union in 1978 and was staying with Christians.
The family had to be very discrete as most of their extended families on either side of the marriage would have turned them over to the secret police for the reward if they had known the couple were Christians.

Earlier, when my parents were leaving Europe in the 1930's most of the people who helped them were Christians, specifically Lutherans and Protestants.

Jesus knew that non-Christians would betray their Christian relatives.
It was true during the part of the Roman Empire when on Emperor insisted that everybody pay homage to his image as if he were God....by taking a pinch of incense and tossing it on hot coals in front of his image. Refusal meant you went to the lions in the arena.
Most of those who went were ''betrayed" by non-believing relatives, again for a monetary reward.
(Those were the days when food was in such short supply that inside the arena loaves of bread were thrown to the audience.)
Jesus knew the unbelievers among the Christians would have a price and it would be a cheap price.

Svlad Cjelli wrote:

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The family had to be very discrete as most of their extended families on either side of the marriage would have turned them over to the secret police for the reward if they had known the couple were Christians.

Or Muslims, or Hindus, or Taoists, or Shintoists, or Pagans, or...

But atheists don't kill people, do they?

/off

Yesterday was May Day- Communist Day- so what were people really celebrating? Let's take a look:

Communist Body Count: 149,469,610

#1- China: Body Count: 73,237,000
#2- USSR:Body Count: 58,627,000
#3- Russian Soviets: Body Count: 3,284,000
#4- North Korea: Body Count: 3,163,000
#5- Cambodia: Body Count: 2,627,000

Svlad Cjelli wrote:

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But atheists don't kill people, do they?

Not in the name of atheism, no. In the name of Communism, "The State", power, "the greater good", greed, etc. sure.

The point was, you were making it out that only Christians were subject to the Soviet secret police and persecutions. They weren't. Many suffered, not just Christians, and not in the name of Atheism, but in the name of Communism, Socialism, and power hungry madmen.

Actually I wasn't.

But anecdotally, I only had that one example to express.

Jews, believers of all stripes suffered under all the atheist leaders in the USSR.