Have there been more atheist or more religious people to do great things for the world?

Question

Great artist?
Great leaders?
Great humanitarians?
Great civil rights activists?
Great scientists?
Great inventors?
Great politicians?
Isn't it too obvious!!!!

Answer 1

You might want to look up something called the Spanish Inquisition before you make such a claim.

If you say to somebody, 'believe or die', you're bound to skew the results a little bit.

Answer 2

Atheists ofcourse or more or less what was possible in the particular timeframe.

The rest thinks they already have all the answers and just pray and go to sleep to resolve existing problems lol.

Ofcourse there is no God, Santa Claus or Easter Bunny but somehow this mindvirus has slept into a majority percentage of the world population, luckily we are slowly getting hold of the virus, would improve things a lot.

Here´s a list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_atheists

To make a small comparison: when u talk to a little boy of 4 years old that santa claus does not exist he will not believe you, he thinks you are somehow confused or bad since you do not believe in Santa Claus, when the little boy grows up and is 20 years old he can not really believe that he ever believed in something called Santa Claus. This is the same thing with the smarter people and the great ones. Because they "grew up" they could influence and improve the world by their brilliance and ofcourse Santa Claus is so far from them that it isnt even worth talking about.

It is so very sad and amazing that such a large group of people just believe stuff without ever researching what we humans did the past 60.000 years. We never needed religion or belief, it is only around for lets say 6000 years and constantly changes in more and more superhero form. I really really can not understand why people are so.... blind and just believe in Santa Claus (also around for a long time by the way even before Coca Cola).

Answer 3

Religion has inspired humans to do many great things. That doesn't make it correct or worthwhile. How many atheists have lived compared to religious people? I think the percentages have as much to do with it as anything. Also, it is historically dangerous to ba a non-believer, so I bet several of the people you think are great actually were shady, evil, atheists.

Answer 4

A Christian mob dragged the great scholar / philosopher / librarian Hypatia of Alexandria out of her classroom, flayed her with oyster shells and murdered her, then burned the irreplaceable Library of Alexandria to the ground.. Their leader, one Cyril, was later made a saint of the Catholic Church.

The Inquisition jailed philosopher-priest Giordano Bruno for six years, trying to force him to recant his ideas about the possibility of extrasolar planets and extraterrestrial life; when he refused, they gagged him, bound him to a stake, piled up the wood around him and let him die a slow agonizing death. They placed all his writings on the censored list for the next four hundred years.

A devout Christian preacher murdered the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

There's more, and worse. You could look it up.

Answer 5

And soes their religion have to di woth any of their accomplishments? And for that matter give up some names maybe the people you consider great are not so great.

Answer 6

More scientists are atheist than religious. and they are the ones we usually think of as intelligent. many humanitarians are also atheist.

Answer 7

One religious people saved all of humanity from an eternity apart from the Father.

Beat that.

Answer 8

well, not exactly atheist, but coppernicus was one of the first to challenge religious ideas. of course back then (as well as now) religious people can't accept any idea that goes against their beliefs, so... it is a eternal struggle

Answer 9

Charles Darwin wasn't so religious, was he?

He lost his religion as he discovered more and more about the real world.

He is one of the greats.

Answer 10

Very...


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Christ on a bloody pogo stick! I assumed you were an Atheist, lol! Are you REALLY telling us you ACTUALLY believe all these great people were xtian!!??? Wow....that's a new level of ignorance evolving, right before our eyes! You're a good example for evolution, thanks!!