Ron, people who love power seek it, and often become totalitarians. Religion or atheism isn't really part of it, even if the totalitarian says so.

And can we avoid getting into the history of atrocity and enlightenment in this thread? Bad people do bad things and good people do good things and they always have and always will. There are good and bad people who are atheists and there are good and bad people who are believers. That's all completely beside the point of this discussion.

John