The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians

[Neo-Scholastic]

…you've made the same argument about Stalin to us, and ignored when we pointed out to you that it was actually Stalin's "idolatrous worship of State power", and not his atheism, that drove him to do the things he did

I’m backing away from simplistic arguments about whether faith or lack thereof were motivating forces or justifications for large scale social movements. Human history is too complex to shoehorn into that dichotomy. Faith can be a factor, but it most certainly not the only one nor is it always the most important.