He was a lot more humane and did a lot more for the world than either of those two ever did. Seems like just a nice little anti-commie-atheist comment to me, implying that communism (which of course is associated with atheism in the US) is a religion.

...what happened when Lee Harvey Oswald went to the American Embassy in Moscow:

Embassy Employee: "Mr. Oswald, why do you want to renounce your American citizenship and become a Soviet citizen?"

Oswald: "Because I'm a Marxist."

Embassy Employee: "Then you're going to be the loneliest man in Russia."

Oswald didn't get the joke.

Switching political theories: I'm currently going thru 9.000 kinds of (non-existent) Hell trying to buy a house. I'm starting to suspect everyone involved in real estate is a thief or impossible. Including me. So I'm really channeling my Inner Proudhon right now.

Yes.... just because there might be "socialist" or "republic" in the title, doesn't mean they are actually very socialistic or a republic.

I keep telling religionists who insist that Commies have killed more people in the name of atheism than all the millennia of religions, that replacing an all knowing infallible god with an all knowing infallible political party is not really atheistic in flavor.

I guess I'll try to add it to my ever-growing pile of recordings on the DVR.

...written by the same authors, Flo Conway and Joe Siegelman:

Snapping: http://snapping.stillpointpress.net/

Holy Terror: http://holyterror.stillpointpress.net/

I have both in my personal library, read both back in the late 90's, Good reads.