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Originally Posted by tame_deuces
These men where not alone, and by looking them up you should learn of many others. Regardless, they are single examples of exceptional individuals who were deeply religious - which alone is enough to counter what you are claiming.
Comparisons to faeries and simple myths like that is not without merit, but it only applies to a select portions of religious belief.
You also fall prey to your own logic here. You have yourself made a fantastic claim in this thread (that religious people are incapable of reason and logic), and demand that others prove you wrong. That is not a good way to make fantastic claims. A person holding that this is a good way to choose his beliefs would validate the most outrageous religious beliefs.
One of those people you quoted made an adage I live by. Occam's Razor, as it is now known, and it is a perfect example of logic vs. religion.
You have to remember, back in those days, being anti-church (whether that meant atheist, anti-religious, round-earther, heliocentrist, w.e) was a certain exile/death sentence. Galileo took it on the chin and went out with his head held high. William of Ockham is known for a theory that basically says "religion is bull****" - he just put it in euphemistic enough terms so that he could avoid getting his head cut off.
Next you'll be telling me that every one of your Congressmen and Senators is actually religious. Yet, since it is literally impossible for an atheist to get elected to anything in the US, I bet the public record says that 100% of them are religious.