That's why atheistic states always turn into police states.

They include not only atheistic and communistic states on the international scene but also certain people within our own society.

Then they would pour out past a cordon of uniformed policemen, a reminder that believers here still worship at the sufferance of an atheistic state.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba has amended its statutes to declare itself a "secular state" rather than atheistic.

In this atheistic state the people preserved their Catholic roots, and church life stayed relatively intact.

From that time, the Communist Party started a campaign of secularisation, seeking to transform the country into an atheistic state along Marxist-Leninist lines.

In the government's view, the population of Protestants was high enough to potentially endanger the atheistic state if it were to mobilize itself.

After the revolution, Cuba became an officially atheistic state and restricted religious practice.

However, their religious affiliation in an officially atheistic state made life increasingly difficult.

The following account shows the enormous developments in church life in Albania, once a declared atheistic state and the most isolated country in Europe.