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Joseph Stalin was an incredibly complex person who made understanding him even more difficult by suppressing information about himself. The claim that Stalin was X, is extremely difficult to establish as there exist so few documents.
He attended an Eastern Orthodox primary school. This was not out of the ordinary as nearly all primary schools were administered by the church. Then he attended seminary at Tbilisi. There are many stories about him leaving seminary, some with scandal, some with conspiracy. Regardless, he "left" seminary at the end of his final year. There are accounts that he was ordained as a priest, and others that he was not. These accounts are so specious because Stalin silenced many of his former classmates and teachers, in fact he did not like it known that he came from Georgia at all. Little is known about Stalin's life until the age of 44 when he became the head of the Communist Party.
Apologists often point to people like Stalin, trying to make a point about atheism:
Premise 1. Stalin was an evil murderer.
Premise 2. Stalin was an atheist.
Premise 3. Thus, Stalin's atheism has something to do with him being an evil murderer.
Conclusion. Therefore, atheism causes evil.
The point of the argument is to try establish that it's wrong to be an atheist, because if too many people are atheists, bad things will happen
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