«Militant Atheist Definition and Examples». Learn Religions(en inglés). Consultado el 22 de febrero de 2024. «Militant atheist is defined as one who is militantly opposed to theism, theists, and religion. Militant atheists have an extreme hostility towards religious theism that entails a desire to see religion suppressed by force. The label militant atheist tends to be used interchangeably with fundamentalist atheist, new atheist, and anti-theist».
Smith, Steven Rathgeb (27 de enero de 2011). McCleary, Rachel M., ed. Religion under Communism: State Regulation, Atheist Competition, and the Dynamics of Supply and Demand(en inglés). Oxford University Press. pp. 234-256. ISBN978-0-19-539004-9. Consultado el 22 de febrero de 2024. «Marxism became an avowedly atheist project that could assume either "scientific" or "militant" approaches to solving the religious problem, depending on the political situation confronting communist leaders and the incentives they perceived for following relatively repressive or permissive policies (Yang 2006; Froese 2008).»