Originally posted by HalitoseHere's a few names for a starter:
Okay HG - Dude π. As all your "why religion is dumb" threads somehow get under my skin, I'll be preparing a list of individuals who were deeply religious and yet managed to do something constructive with their lives. (not despite their religion, but because of their religion) Happy hunting. L8r.
Rembrandt Harmensz Van Rijn
Johann Sebastian Bach
George Frideric Handel
John Bunyan
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
George MacDonald
G.K. Chesterton
Dorothy Sayers
C.S. Lewis
Dante Alighieri
Geoffrey Chaucer
John Donne
George Herbert
John Milton
Anne Bradstreet
Isaac Watts
Charles Wesley
Fanny Crosby
T.S. Eliot
Francis of Assisi
Joan of Arc
Søren Kierkegaard
John Woolman
William Wilberforce
Elizabeth Fry
Sojourner Truth
William Booth
Origen
Erasmus
Nicholas Copernicus
Francis Bacon
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
Rene Descartes
Isaac Newton
Robert Boyle
Michael Faraday
Gregor Mendel
Kelvin
Max Planck
As this thread is an attack on all religions, my list will include all non-atheists in proving my point that people can be religious and still have a constructive impact on life.
Originally posted by HalitoseNice list. Just wondering why Origen is there, what do he do apart from cutting off his balls?
As this thread is an attack on all religions, my list will include all non-atheists in proving my point that people can be religious and still have a constructive impact on life.
Edit--T.S. Eliot's best poetry was written before he adopted Christianity.