Quote:Persistent isn't he? Haha.
No. Just typically dense. Blackbeard was the captain. He ordered the cannon fired....not the ship's cook.
As far as Stalin goes, there would have been any number of people killed in his purges. Russian orthodox, muslim, jewish, atheists, he did not care.
He had a goal to spread communism and this bullshit about religion being a threat to the state is the standard cop out answer. It was not a concern. Lenin had done a fine job of suppressing the church long before Stalin came to power. This was mainly because of their propping up the Tzarist regime which was standard of most churches...as Jefferson noted long before the Russian Revolution.
Quote:In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.
