Couples with differing views on religion

[manbearpig]

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I just want to point out that you listed Copernicus first, who was a man of great intelligence that was stifled by the church holding him back. I don't want to go through the other guys, but I am sure a lot of them felt the pressure of the church on their back when they were trying to maximize their potential. That's what happens when you make yourself subservient to at. man made church.

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agreed, i'm not trying to argue the value of "the church" or anything like that. I'm not even saying they are right to believe in god. What I am saying is that those people were most likely smarter than everyone in this thread and they believed in god , which refutes the *uppity* atheist argument that anyone who believes in god is just a brainwashed idiot who worships an invisible man in the sky.



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Ummm...time period. We have slightly more evidence today than we did back then. Science has progressed to the point where we can explain a lot more of what was unexplainable to people even 200 years ago, let alone 2000.

Smarter is a relative term anyway. Were they better thinkers? Probably. Did they know more than the average smart person today? I doubt it.