Screw extremism. Religion, in its entirety, is destructive, immoral, divisive and arrogant. I don't care if someone feels that liberal theists are the better 'type'. No they aren't. They're wishy-washy and worship a god of the gaps who is ever receding and shrinking. I don't feel prosecuted, as an atheist, but equally I have no respect for something that denies both Hitchens' and Ockham's Razor while demanding proof of a default negative.
Fuck comfort. Fuck faith. Truth is what matters.
Actually Stalin wasn't. At least not openly. He actively used his position as head of the Orthodox Church to his advantage.
Also, yeah, most commies are. I happen to be one of them because I feel religion goes against principles of anarchism and free association.