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To: Greg or e who wrote (47652)2/27/2014 7:45:29 PM
From: average joe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 69300
 
Einstein was an atheist...

Albert Einstein: From a Jesuit Viewpoint, I am an Atheist I received your letter of June 10th.
I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

- Albert Einstein, letter to Guy H. Raner Jr, July 2, 1945, responding to a rumor that a Jesuit priest had caused Einstein to convert from atheism; quoted by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic, Vol. 5, No. 2



To: Greg or e who wrote (47652)2/27/2014 7:46:35 PM
From: average joe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 69300
 
Stalin was not an atheist...
During the Second World War, Stalin reopened the churches. One reason could have been to motivate the majority of the population who had Christian beliefs. The reasoning behind this is that by changing the official policy of the party and the state towards religion, the Church and its clergymen could be to his disposal in mobilizing the war effort. On 4 September 1943, Stalin invited Metropolitan Sergius, Metropolitan Alexius and Metropolitan Nicholas to the Kremlin and proposed to reestablish the Moscow Patriarchate, which had been suspended since 1925, and elect the Patriarch. On 8 September 1943, Metropolitan Sergius was elected patriarch.