I believe John Paul II visited Cuba a few years back. Basically giving his tacit endorsement of Castro's government.
Here's a brief wiki:
quote:
In the post-revolutionary era religious practice was discouraged,and Cuba,from 1962, was officially an atheist state until 1992 which it amended its constitution to become formally a secular state. While the papal visit to Cuba has strengthened official Catholicism, most Cubans share a motley of faiths that include popular Catholicism, over 50 versions of Protestantism, spiritism, African-derived beliefs.
That quote gets at important point. It seems that Robin and others here have conflated Atheism with Secularism. The US is secular, the Soviet Union was Atheist, and there is a big difference imo.
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