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I am Christian, therefore I am communist. The first Christian communities were very communist... except that they were expecting the immediate end of the world.

— Gianni Vattimo Only Weak Communism Can Save Us (2013)

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I am a marxist, a leninist and I don't even consider disagreeable Stalin, who saved us from Hitler, more than the United States.

Opposing homosexual families is only possible in the name of a philosophical belief about the natural essence of the family itself. This cannot be professed by a lay state.

Soviet communism and Western capitalism share the same crazy ideology: forced industrialization of society.

Only Weak Communism Can Save Us (2013)

The paradoxical fact is that it is precisely the passion for truth, conscience, in its search for the truth, that has come to undermine itself: it has discovered, in fact, that it is just a passion like any other.

Just as Western literature would be unthinkable without the Homeric poems, without Shakespeare, without Dante, so our culture as a whole would be meaningless if we were to cut Christianity out of it.

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Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

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