The reason people put their faith in religion, rather than themselves, is because they are lazy. It's much easier to defend a delusion when there are a couple of billion people who believe the same delusion. But, all those people together don't equal the strength of a single, committed individual who believes in themself. The saddest part is that most people have religion forced upon them when they are children and never come to realize how powerful a real, non-deluded human being can be.
Here are a few famous non-believers who believed in themselves, and consequently helped change the world because of it.
Francis Crick - co-discoverer of DNA
William Gates - most charitable man in the world
Warren Buffet - 2nd most charitable
Noam Chomsky - founded modern linguistics
Albert Einstein - theories of general and special relativity
Friedrich Nietzsche - German philogist and philosopher
Steve Wozniak - Co-creator Apple computer
Charles Darwin - theory of evolution changed the world
2006-11-09
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