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God. The name alone inspires a multitude of emotions. Most people love, fear and praise God. Some people believe in a gentle god, while others believe in a vengeful god. In “The Sinners in the hands of an Angry God”, Jonathon Edwards believes in the latter, a bitter and merciless god. His teaching inspired dread and predicted doom for the sinners. There were people in our world history that aspired greatness by intimidating and scaring people into following them. One prime example is Joseph Stalin. Stalin used any means necessary, including death, to achieve his goals of becoming a leader. Joseph Stalin considered himself God, and believed that all the people were inferior to him, just as God himself is reflected in “The Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” During his 27 year regime, Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin was responsible for deaths of 37 million peopl