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Wedding are an important institution as they serve as an opportunity for a couple to publicly declare commitment to each other which helps start the family on the right foot.

Wedding are also a great opportunity for two different extended families to intermingle and get to know each other, again helping the couple's lives later down the line.

Of course one should have a wedding that is financially ruinous, but a party (with a reasonable budget) for two families to celebrate the couple's commitment is well worth it.

https://www.np.reddit.com/r/E_W_O/comments/myv6ey/purim_jewish_blood_libel

Full disclosure, I posted a similar post about Stalin, which was not well-received because Stalin was complex person with multiple motivations and is also an incendiary figure.

See: https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateAnAtheist/comments/2ny5eq/stalin_was_an_atheist_extremist/

I am taking a more modest position here about a specific campaign, This one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR_anti-religious_campaign_(1928%E2%80%931941)

(mods if you think this I not appropriate, let me know and I will delete – I will leave it to your judgment).

Some preliminary issues:

P1. I am discussing SOLELY “hard” or “strong” or “gnostic” atheism here (which is a subtype of atheism that DOES take a position