Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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>>>From Jews, Christians, Moslems, have come great works of art, architecture, music, mathematics, the sciences<<<


Because most of the world's population profess to one religion or another whether they have real faith or not. How do you know that the Sydney Opera House wasn't designed by an atheist and what do you know about the faith of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahm and Einstein?


Einstein was an agnostic, but for a public face he--for practical reasons--wished to keep his lack of faith from the public. The press and the church wanted people to believe that he was a man of faith, and they succeeded.

http://skeptically.org/thinkersonreligion/id8.html


Ludwig van Beethoven.......... was reared a Catholic but quit the church and adopted Goethe's Pantheism. Pantheism, as you know, is the doctrine that equates god with the forces and laws of the universe. Although Ludwig van Beethoven composed a Catholic mass (Missa Solemnis) which an authority described as "perhaps the grandest piece of musical expression which art possesses," he remained a Pantheist to the end. It is piquant that the musical expert who thus appreciates his mass, Sir. G. Macfarrcn, describes him as "a freethinker" — that is to say, an Atheist — (in the Imper. Dict. of Univ. Biog.)

Johannes Brahms......was even less religious than Beethoven. He reveals in his letters to Hersogenberg (Letters of J. Brahms: the Hersogenberg Correspondence, English translation 1909) that he was a complete agnostic.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart........the two leading biographers of Mozart put it beyond question that he was a non-Christian. Wilder gives ample evidence and tells us that on his death bed he refused to ask for a priest and when his wife nevertheless sent for one, the priest was refused, and he was buried without a service in the common grave of the poor. His famous Requiem Mass was composed for Count Walsegg, who paid Mozart but then put his own name on the composition. Ulibichov, the second leading biographer, gives even further evidence that Wolfgang Mozart abandoned the Church.

http://www.atheists.org/Atheism/roots/musicians/


Frankly......the only accomplishment I can think of where religion plays an important role is the process of running for public office in america. As much as it helps people get elected, where's the evidence of greatness created by these christians once in office?