On Jan 22, 2007, at 5:13 PM, Helio W. wrote:
> No. Stalin just "called himself" an atheist. But he was a deeply
> religious
> guy following a very dogmatic religion. That's why he felt
> empowered to do
> what he did.
He did not believe in a higher being as the basis of his strong
beliefs. That means he was not a theist, and hence an atheist.
Atheists can be very rigid and dogmatic about all sorts of things.
They're just people, after all.
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