<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 William Flynn Wallace </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>John Clark thinks it is dumb to be religious. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Yes.</font></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>That got me to thinking of all the really really smart people in history who were religious - or said they were for reason of power, money, etc.For one, Ben Franklin,</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">I have some Ben Franklin quotes:</font></div></div><div>
<p class=""><font size="4"></font></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">"</font></div><font size="4">Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">"</div></font><p></p>
<p class=""><font size="4"></font></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">"</font></div><font size="4">I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">"</div></font><p></p>
<p class=""><font size="4"></font></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">"</font></div><font size="4">Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">"</div> </font><p></p>
<p class=""><font size="4"></font></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">"</font></div><font size="4">The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">"</div> </font><p></p></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>clearly one of the greatest geniuses ever, denied that he was an atheist. He was a Deist</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">For reasons I don't understand many people are perfectly willing to abandon the idea of God but not the word G-O-D, so they say "God" means a vague ambiguous grey blob and insist they believe in that. Well I think that </font></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">vague ambiguous grey blob<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">s exist too, but I don't believe in God.</div></font></span></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Then there is Isaac Newton. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">Newton died 300 years ago and back then almost everybody believed in God. And by the way, Newton may have been the greatest scientist who ever lived but he was a very unpleasant man.</font></div><font size="4"> </font></div><div><font size="4"> </font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>There is no conflict between being IQ smart, creative smart, and being religious.</div></div></blockquote><div>
<p class=""><font size="4">A</font></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"></font></div><font size="4"> article in the July 23 1998 issue of the Journal Nature<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> is</div> entitled "Leading scientists still reject God"<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> and</div> reports on the religious beliefs of top scientists. The astounding thing wasn't that 93% didn't believe in God, the astounding thing was that 7% did.</font><p></p><p class=""><font size="4"></font></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><font size="4"><br></font><p></p></div><br>
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