That is more accurate.
Communism incorporates atheism because it is a practical tool for their ends. They do not arrive at communism because they are atheists.
Commies were always atheists. Someone who is not an atheist is a not a Commie. Who is not a Commie is an enemy.
And of course communism relies on blind faith to be believed.
Exactly: Atheism is a belief.
Reason and logic and evidence dictates that communism is abominable and evil and will never work.
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Therefore you have to side step logic reason and evidence and replace it with faith.
This faith that it will work makes communism far more akin to a religion. For example the absolute iron clad faith in the scientific, dialectic view of history. Which falls apart the instant anyone of reasonable intelligence studies history and sees that the dialectic his ludicrously stupid and unworkable. Yet communists believe it blindly.
The point is that since communism is much like a religion in that it rests on absurd faith they have to get rid of the competition as all religions do.
If I follow your "logic" then you say here Christians are like Commies, because atheism is a belief.
They may be lacking a specific deity but it is not necessary to have a specific deity to have a religion.
¿Deity? ...
It is all about using faith to believe that which would not be believed by anyone with intelligence.
Christians and Commies suffer a lack of intelligence? I fear you suffer a lack of intelligence to say so.
SO they adopt and enforce atheism to suppress some of the competition.
No. Atheism is an essential part of Communism. Atheism needs not scruple. Because Communism is an ideology of war (class-fight) scruples are a problem for the readiness to use violence or any other kind of dirty trick.
Christians: Peace is only possible with a way of peace.
Commies: The end justifies the means.
In this example here Communism and Pragmatism are very similar and Idealism and Christianity are more similar.
Communists are always atheists but atheism does not lead to communism which is the point.
Atheism is a belief. Who believes not in spirituality ignores spirituality. That's all. Example: They see in animals little machine or think animals do not have rights. ...
If you would not say so then you had to accept the paradox that atheists are believing not to believe. Christians are in a better situation. We are able to discuss about every theme, also spiritual themes including paradoxa of our own beliefes - what's often very interesting.
Conclusion? ¿"Because I am an atheist atheism is ... ¿true?"?
while it is true that communists force it on others most people who are atheists in the free world arrive at that conclusion intelligently.
What a luck that you do not suffer prejudices, member of the caste "intelligentia":
No Christians and communists both suspend reason and intelligence replacing it with faith to support idiotic ideas and that IS an intelligent thing to say.
Did I still say: "What a luck that you do not suffer prejudices, member of the caste "intelligentia""? I did. Good.
No you are wrong atheism is not a belief nor is it ignoring anything.
You do not know that god is not existing. Atheism is a belief. And you have not a little idea about what Christians and others - Buddhists for example too - are speaking about with each other if you ignore every knowledge which is existing since thousands of years in context with spirituality.
Atheism is the mull position
¿Mull? position? I guess you liked to say "null position" or "zero position"
as in there is no evidence of a god
"A god" and "god" are totally different things. And "evidence" is in your case an evidence in sense of natural science (basing on the idea of empirism). The elementary problem: Natural science speaks about the creation - not about the creator. When god created existence - and ways of evidence in sense of natural science - existed nothing.
God exists not as a kind of subject you are able to put under a microscope. What doesn't mean god is not looking in your eyes when you use a microscope.
and it is up to believers to prove otherwise.
As far as I know your complete way to argue comes from Mr. Richard Dawkin. I will never understand how this man got a noble price. Since ever Christians say "I believe in god". This means to trust in god, although no one knows god. This declaration is for example true as long as someone believes in god. But no one else is able to know whether someone believes in god or not. And it's totally unimportant for Christians to prove this - or to prove the existence of god. This has nothing to do with anything what Christians say.
Since they cannot provide any evidence of any kind whatsoever that any god exists the lgoical conclusion is that there is no god.
What a nonsense. Again: God created existence - nothing was existing before he did so.
That is not a belief at all.
Then tell me why not only nothing is all around us.
As I said spirituality is something many claim to have and that is not ignored. The fact is not every one needs it or has it or wants it therefore spirituality is irrelevant to what atheists think.
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atheism is not ... ignoring anything"
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Believing not to believe is merely a stupid contradiction which by definition is self defeating.
Contradictions by their very nature do not exist ever.
Look up thew word belief and the word conclusion they are not the same so your question is merely a strawman.
Do me the favor to speak with someone else. I hate this stupid never ending confusing nonsense meanwhile. Meister Eckhart showed in the deepest middle ages more intelligence than the most anti-Christian members of the caste "intelligentsia" today.