Assertion: atheism | /r/HasProperty | benign
Facets:
value: always
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: However, the author concludes that Nazi Germany was not a "straightforwardly atheist state", but one which sacrilized notions of blood and nation in a way that is "foreign to mainstream rational atheism" and that while the Soviet Union, which was "avowedly and officially an atheist state", this is not a reason to think that atheism is necessarily evil, though it is a refutation of the idea that atheism must always be benign as "there is I believe a salutary lesson to be learned from the way in which atheism formed an essential part of Soviet Communism, even though Communism does not form an essential part of atheism.