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List of God-deluded idiots as they appear:
Sir Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei, William Shakespeare, Rene Descartes, Sir Robert Boyle, Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Joseph Priestly, Thomas Jefferson, Noah Webster, William Wilberforce, Michael Faraday, George Washington Carver, Albert Einstein, Francis Collins.

Before anyone corrects me: yes, not all of these men were Bible-believing Christians (many were non-religious deists). And yes, simply because these intelligent men believed in God, doesn’t mean God does exist, or that people should believe in him.

However, these men do shatter the stereotype that people who acknowledge the existence of God are unintelligent, irrational, anti-science ignoramuses who are a threat to rational thought and free inquiry.

Here are some other God-believing simpletons you may know of:
Aristotle
Leonardo Da Vinci
Nicholas Copernicus
Michelangelo
Johannes Kepler
John Milton
Blaise Pascal
Baruch Spinoza
John Locke
Immanuel Kant
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig van Beethoven
John Stuart Mill
Louis Pasteur
Gregor Mendel
William Thomson Kelvin
Jules Verne
Theodore Roosevelt
Max Planck
T.S. Eliot
J.R.R. Tolkien
William Golding
John F. Kennedy
Charles M. Schulz
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
and thousands more...
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~Saint-Tepes 1 day ago  Hobbyist Artist
Albert Einstein:
"Your question [about God] is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no. I am not an Atheist."

"science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

""Unquestionably! No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life."

"Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly."

"a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings and aspirations to which he clings because of their super-personal value. It seems to me that what is important is the force of this superpersonal content ... regardless of whether any attempt is made to unite this content with a Divine Being, for otherwise it would not be possible to count Buddha and Spinoza as religious personalities. Accordingly a religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt of the significance of those super-personal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation ... In this sense religion is the age-old endeavor of mankind to become clearly and completely conscious of these values and goals and constantly to strengthen and extend their effect. If one conceives of religion and science according to these definitions then a conflict between them appears impossible. For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be"
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OH NOES I'M A MORON! HALPH!
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I just wish the asshole atheists would stop giving the non asshole ones such a bad name
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~BlameThe1st Dec 17, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Only if the non-asshole atheists speak out against them.
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We do speak out against them, but it never ends pretty.
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~BlameThe1st Jan 28, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
I never does.
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Yep. Sadly the way it is with anti-theists these days (which is actually what these bigoted assholes are, not atheist...there is a difference) you cannot believe in religous tolerance and yet be someone who does not believe in a god or anything divine in general. If you do, then you are apparently not a true Atheist. Instead, you are a sham. A poser does not conform to the level of promoting religious hatred.
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~BlameThe1st Jan 31, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Well, the "tolerant" among us tend to be the most "intolerant."
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Personally, I am convinced that anyone that feels the need to call themselves tolerant based on their ideology is not really tolerant. Truly tolerant people normally do not recognize that they are tolerant. They just are. People who glorify their tolerance based on what they believe however, just say they are to make themselves seem superior.
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~BlameThe1st Feb 5, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Isn't that the way it normally is with most people? Those who preach tolerance tend to be the least tolerant. Those who preach civility tend to be the least civil. Those who preach acceptance tend to be the most bigoted.
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