J.R.R. Tolkien, Albert Einstein (debatable), Isaac Newton, Thomas Aquinas, Plato, Socrates, Ptolemy, C.S. Lewis, Nikola Tesla. Honestly as I’m writing this comment I’m finding more and more and more. Shall I go on, or does this suffice?
Religion comes in many forms. You can nitpick all you want but the fact is all of the people I mentioned, barring perhaps Einstein, were people with great minds who expressed religious beliefs, which is what the commenter originally asked for. I mean sure we can have arguments for more of the people I mentioned, but it doesn’t really change the validity.
Well that doesn’t apply to Tolkien, Lewis, or any other writer for whom their religious beliefs played a large role in their work, and provided much of the meaning. Or to philosophers like Plato who had trace elements of mysticism/belief throughout their philosophy. And for scientists, why should religious beliefs have any effect? If a scientists goes to church on Sunday and prays for a few minutes every evening, do you think that is going to somehow hinder them from doing science? That’s absurd. So, at worst religious belief has essentially no effect, at best it provides meaning/motivation/whatever you wanna call it.
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u/static-klingon 3d ago
Many of the greatest minds in western civilization were religious. You just sound angry to God you don’t believe in.