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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]] penned 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 also: [[State atheism]] and [[Atheism and mass murder]] ]]
[[Image:Stalin-140508 27880t.jpg|right|225px|thumb|In 1932, the brutal atheist dictator and [[militant atheism|militant atheist]] [[Joseph Stalin]] penned 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 also: [[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]]''':
<big>The primary cause of actual self-identified, positive "atheism" in the world today is having read and studied the Bible (or whatever religious book that the culture of the person comes from, tends to hold in high regard). Others who have not actually read the religious books of their cultures often just stay in the category of "agnostic", while remaining an unconvinced nonbeliever, and sometimes fall back into their superstitious, ancient beliefs, or into a different one.</big>
1. '''Moral depravity:''' The history of the atheist community and various studies concerning the atheist community point to moral depravity [[Atheism and morality| being a causal factor]] for atheism.<ref>
1. '''Moral depravity:''' The history of the atheist community and various studies concerning the atheist community point to moral depravity [[Atheism and morality| being a causal factor]] for atheism.<ref>