Ah but Bakerstreet, communism in China and in the Soviet Union WAS a religion too. I see no difference in the Cult of Stalin or Mao and the cult of Jehovah or Yaveh. Both tell you what you are allowed to believe in and what you are not.
Atheism can also be a religion, ironically. After all, isn't "Athiest" also a checkbox on forms next to "Christian", "Muslim" and "Buddist" when they ask for your religion? 
When the French (those people you love so much ) crusified their priests on the doors of their churches after the 1789 Revolution, they did no better than the abuse the priests had been doing for centuries.
Organised thought control is dispicable (hehehehe! I can't help but hear Silvester the cat as I typed this), whether it's not in the name of God, or in the name of no God.
I'd like to tell a little story here. About 7 years ago or so, when I first started chatting online, I met a woman from Tennessee. We chatted often and I become relatively close to her, to the point where she started telling me some personal stuff. She was unhappy. She was married and had 4 children. You see, she believed that her place on earth was to obey her husband and make sure that he always had what he needed. God, she told me, made Man in his image. Not humanity, no man. And he made woman just so the poor fellow wouldn't be so lonely. Women's role, is to have children, raise them to be good christians, keep the house clean and comfortable for hubby, and to always obey him. He was the boss. No discussions, no compromises. If he wanted to beat her, he had the right to do so, cause he was the boss, he was the law. And if she wasn't happy about it, divorce was not an option either. A good christian doesn't divorce. And what did her parents think of it? Well, they said that he he beat her, it was because he wasn't happy; and if he wasn't happy, it was her fault. Make him happy, and he won't beat you.
I could not believe it. This was a shock to me. This is the 20th century for goodness sake! Who trapped you in the middle ages? I kept telling her. Get out of there, take the children and run! Nope, can't do that, she said. I'm a Christian, and I can't leave my husband.
And she told me that it was how it was where she lived. She wasn't some freak living in the woods; that's how it is here in Tennessee, she said.
Is that true? Any American here can confirm that in some US states, people are no better than fanatic islamists in Bagdad or Kaboul?
This is where religion gets you, imo. And that's why I'm so passionately against it.
