By: Robert Curry To: Phil Morrison Re: major advances PM+gt; Unless I am terribly wrong, t

By: Robert Curry
To: Phil Morrison
Re: major advances
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 PM> Unless I am terribly wrong, the major advances in the world
 PM> have been made by dedicated Christians.

 o  Florence Nightingale established nursing care for soldiers on
    the battlefield.  A dedicated Christian?  No, a concerned atheist.

 o  James Lick helped to finance the largest (at the time) telescope
    and observatory here in the U.S.  An atheist helping to advance
    the science of astronomy in a big way.

 o  Stephen Girard opened the first free college for orphans in the
    U.S.  No religious belief system was needed for this atheist
    to do good.

 o  Jean Henri Dunant organized the Internatonal Red Cross.  Yes, you
    guessed it - another concerned atheist improving the world.

 o  Andrew Carnegie financed most of the libraries in large cities
    in the U.S. and many in Canada.  Still another major advance that
    an atheist brought about, to the benefit of our society.

 o  James Smithson was the atheist who established the Smithsonian
    Institute.  Perhaps you've heard of it?

 o  Francis Wright was the first person to buy slaves in order to free
    them and set them up on their own land.  Dedicated Christians may
    have sold their slaves, but it was an atheist who first freed them.

 o  Clarence Darrow (yes, the atheist lawyer of fame from the Scopes
    trial) fought for workmen's compensation and unemployment compensation
    laws when these were almost unheard of.

 PM> Unless I am terribly wrong, the major advances in the world
 PM> have been made by dedicated Christians.

Your biased claims based upon empty rumors are debunked.

Go, and bear false witness against your neighbor no more.