Religion and Totalitarianism - Merited Impossibility

Religion and Totalitarianism - Merited Impossibility

"My father was a closeted Christian in the USSR. There was no way for him to get his hands on a Bible or talk to a priest but he was desperate to learn about the teachings of Christ. So he'd pore over the textbooks in his university courses on Scientific Atheism (yes, that's the real, official name) that everybody had to take and he would underline every quote from the Bible that the textbooks included to demonstrate the supposed stupidity of Christianity. He didn't read the Soviet critique of the Bible that filled the space between the quotes. But the quotes were the only way for him to access the text of the Bible...."