With a mad vision of a Communist agrarian utopia, he emptied the country's cities and massacred its educated people, abolishing commerce, religion, the arts and family life.
Atran adds that abolishing religion will do nothing to rid mankind of its ills.
We can look elsewhere using reason to discover answer to these problems, and we do not have to abolish religion.
The GDR's constitution proclaimed the freedom of religious belief, but in reality the new state tried to abolish religion.
Pol Pot abolished religion, education, medicine, commerce, money.
Many of the explorers, scientists, and thinkers at the cutting edge of change believed that they were finding new ways of being religious rather than abolishing religion altogether.
The Faylasufs had no intention of abolishing religion but wanted to purify it of what they regarded as primitive and parochial elements.
Nevertheless he made a valid and perceptive point when he insisted that it would be dangerous to attempt to abolish religion.
They emptied the cities, divided families, abolished religion, closed schools and sent tens of thousands to places like Tuol Sleng.
The twenty-fourth century had not yet abolished God, but it had abolished organized religion.