Well, here's a little lite reading! The Myth of Monotheism

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15. Nothing even close

We admire. They literally revere as deities. Apparently ol' Jong-Il could control the weather by his mood. Is that supernatural enough for you?

"The League of Militant Atheists were one of several groups of declared atheists that heavily and violently imposed the policy of "scientific atheism."

As I noted, many states required the placement of the state above all others, pretty much as a religion in itself, competition not allowed. The Soviet Union was certainly one of the main practitioners of this ideal. The League of Militant Atheists was simply the state's tool to wipe out competing religions in the earlier, more fanatical days. Eventually the state realized that it could retain power while individual religious belief was allowed to exist, the power of established centralized churches having been crushed. Thus the state disbanded the LMA as unnecessary, and even counterproductive to a degree.

I can give you the Cult of Reason as a small, short-lived group of fanatics. However, the French dechristianization was basically a revenge attack on the Catholic Church that had been a big part of the Ancien Regime. Don't forget, the Protestant Huguenots were allowed back and granted full citizenship right in the middle of this, so you can't say it was an atheist effort to wipe out religion overall.