Re: Former Soviet Leader Gorbachev Admits He Is A Christian

On  Sat, 17 May 2008 18:09:38 +1000 James A. Donald
<jamesd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> carved the following into the hard stone of
alt.atheism 
>Douglas Berry
>> > > So? Stalin studied for the priesthood.
>
>James A. Donald:
>> > No, Stalin did not study for the priesthood.
>> >
>> > Stalin went to a religious school - as did every other 
>> > member of the Georgian elite. 
>
>Douglas Berry
>> The son of a drunk, failed cobbler and a former serf was one of the
>> Georgian elite?
>
>His mother's lover was one of the elite.  Stalin was sent to an elite
>school either on a scholar****p, in which case the elite was recruiting
>those sufficiently talented regardless of birth, or by his mother's
>lover, in which case he was in the elite by blood or adoption.  There
>is no record of any scholar****p, but the official history says he got
>a scholar****p.

I notice you snipped the part where I pointed out that after attending
school in his hoime town, Stalin enrolled in a seminary.
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