[[Image:Stalin-140508 27880t.jpg|right|225px|thumb|[[Joseph Stalin]] was a brutal atheist dictator. See: [[Atheism and mass murder]] and [[Militant atheism]] ]]
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[[Image:Stalin-140508 27880t.jpg|right|225px|thumb|In 1932, the brutal atheist dictator and [[militant atheism|militant atheist]] [[Joseph Stalin]] instituted a repressive “Five Year Plan of Atheism”.<ref>[http://winteryknight.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/was-stalin-an-atheist-is-atheism-or-communism-responsible-for-mass-murders/ Was Stalin an atheist? Is atheism or communism responsible for mass murders?]</ref> See: [[State atheism]] and [[Atheism and mass murder]] ]]
There are a number of reasonable explanations for the '''causes of [[atheism]]''':
There are a number of reasonable explanations for the '''causes of [[atheism]]''':