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=== Atheism and rape ===

=== Atheism and rape ===

[[File:Stalin-140508 27880t.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|When told that Red Army soldiers sexually assaulted German refugees, the atheist [[Joseph Stalin]] reportedly declared: "We lecture our soldiers too much; let them have their initiative."<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080493/Stalins-army-rapists-The-brutal-war-crime-Russia-Germany-tried-ignore.html | location=London | work=Daily Mail | first=Andrew | last=Roberts | title=Stalin's army of rapists: The brutal war crime that Russia and Germany tried to ignore | date=24 October 2008}}</ref>]]

[[File:Stalin-140508 27880t.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|When told that Red Army soldiers sexually assaulted German refugees, the atheist [[Joseph Stalin]] reportedly declared: "We lecture our soldiers too much; let them have their initiative."<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080493/Stalins-army-rapists-The-brutal-war-crime-Russia-Germany-tried-ignore.html | location=London | work=Daily Mail | first=Andrew | last=Roberts | title=Stalin's army of rapists: The brutal war crime that Russia and Germany tried to ignore | date=24 October 2008}}</ref>]]

''See also:'' [[Atheism and rape]] and [[Mass rape of German women by the Soviet army]]

''See also:'' [[Atheism and rape]] and [[Mass rape during the occupation of Germany|Mass rape of German women by the Soviet army]]

Atheism offers no condemnation of [[rape]] and it provides no [[moral]] basis for a society to attempt to prevent and deter rape. Western atheists often assert there are no absolutes in morality and argue for [[moral relativism]] (see: [[Atheism and morality]]).  

Atheism offers no condemnation of [[rape]] and it provides no [[moral]] basis for a society to attempt to prevent and deter rape. Western atheists often assert there are no absolutes in morality and argue for [[moral relativism]] (see: [[Atheism and morality]]).