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The article drops this in, "At the time the United States was neck-deep in the Red Scare, and communism was like atheism to the US government and the FBI." with

The article drops this in, "At the time the United States was neck-deep in the Red Scare, and communism was like atheism to the US government and the FBI." without comment, as if everyone just knows that atheism is the worst thing ever.

bch 5y ago
> atheism is the worst thing ever Perhaps “anathema” got butchered? I’m trying to make sense of that too…
- smolder 5y ago
  That, or maybe they only got out part of their analogy; that communism was to western government what atheism was to the church.