Ideological people are generally very stupid, because they take a few
received precepts and force the world to fit them as a substitute for
intelligent thought.

Doesn't matter whether the ideology is Communism or religion.

The problem isn't *intelligent* atheism but *unintelligent* absolutist
Communism or *unintelligent* absolutist free-marketism or absolutist
religion or unintelligent absolutist anything.

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit
atrocities"
-- Voltaire.