Xishiku Cathedral, Beijing, China.
But I'm getting really tired of these self righteous, self proclaimed brights trying to convince everyone that their way is so good and pure while everyone else's is evil.
You are not alone on this, especially when the author's original premise is considered.
In this report, Human Rights Watch/Asia focuses on the persistent crackdown against religious expression of Catholics and Protestants. We note, however, that repression in China is directed against all religions, the five that are officially recognized (Buddhism, Daoism, Islam. Catholicism, and Protestantism) and all allegedly aberrant and superstitious sects.
I really can't understand how you can look at things like that, a gov't that is atheist, persecuting EVERY religion, and not draw a conclusion that atheism plays a major part in that.
A more exacting question would be why does the Roman Catholic church continue to maintain priests, nuns and bishops secretly in (formerly?) Red China? Care to post a picture of one of those?