text: Hitler was not atheist. Part of his plan of global domination was the indoctrination of a new religion. Further more you say it's a good thing that all the "badass conquerors" were religious but those same people enslaved millions and CONQUERED sovereign people. Yeah, Stalin was atheist but now you've got one shitty person against thousands of years of oppression by religion. The church used its power to control uneducated people for hundreds of years.