"Repressive states increase individual suffering and, in so doing, add even greater fuel to the religious impulse. In making faith more costly, the Soviets probably have made it both more necessary and valuable. Perhaps religion is never so potent as when it is an underground church, for then its compensators bear no taint of worldliness and are of maximum potency. Unless or until communism turns supernatural and becomes a religion, it always will be overmatched in long-term conflicts with real religions." -- The Future of Religion by Stark and Bainbridge, p. 527
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