==Marxist secularism== 
 I think there should probably be an additional commentary on Marxist secularism, i.e. on Marxist interpretations of Church-State separation. Communist countries have often been refered to as atheistic in the Western press, but at home, they considered themselves to be merely secular states, secular states that applied Marxist ideology in public life. During the 1980s, as opposed to the two-way model that currently exists between the United States and France, there was often a third-way model of secularism that was promoted in the Eastern bloc states, which asserted the primacy of the State in all matters public, and considers religion to be a negative influence that is to be relegated to the private sphere, along with other undesirables such as capitalism.