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To: Brumar89 who wrote (44231)	12/21/2013 1:59:08 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Stalin isn't my hero. I can see why you would admire that kind of power. Unfortunately the Church Militant was created by the Catholics and like you no longer have the courage of their convictions. "It may signify the whole body of the faithful, including not merely the members of the Church who are alive on earth but those, too, whether in heaven or in purgatory, who form part of the one communion of saints. Considered thus, the Church is divided into the Church Militant, the Church Suffering, and the Church Triumphant." newadvent.org

To: Brumar89 who wrote (44231)	12/22/2013 4:45:03 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Stalin was named after Saint Joseph and was raised to be a priest. His father was a priest and young Joseph spent five years in a Greek Orthodox seminary. The Christian church made him into a man of superstitious ideology (Communism is, of course, both a superstition and an ideology). If he had not been raised by a Priest, millions of people might have been saved from death. But then again, there is no doubt that the Nazis would have won--and then how many bombs would have been dropped--or what compromises would have been made? The Priest Stalin stopped the Jesus Hero Worshipper, Hitler. The rest is history...