ATHEISTS vs. THEISTS?

Question

Atheists:

Napoleon Bonaparte

Thomas Edison

Vincent Van Gogh

Ernest Hemingway

Aldous Huxley

Bill Gates

Richard Dawkins

Warren Buffet

Albert Einstein

Friedrich Nietzsche

John Stewart Mill

Frank Lloyd Wright

Theists:

George W. Bush

What is your reaction to this?

Answer 1

get your facts straight, albert einstein was a deism. not a atheist

Answer 2

Well, theres some greats from both sides...

I can also add my next door neighbor to the atheist side.

He would make George Bush look literate.

Answer 3

that it's a woefully incomplete list... on both sides.

Answer 4

ahahah atheists pwn!!!!!

wooot blil gaters! hes like my hehero!

Answer 5

Albert Einstein?  Not so sure about that one.  There is some question.  

Answer 6

Good one. Thanks!

Answer 7

Well, i'm atheist but i'm sure that there are a lot of smart theist, of course the exceptions exist like our dear george  

Answer 8

my reaction: dude, you copied my title from my other question. -_-

Answer 9

Atheist vs. Theists is known by R&S around here. :P

Answer 10

Nice list. By the way, Einstein was a 'Pantheist'.

Einstein, pantheist

Quotes from Albert Einstein:

"I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings." [Telegram of 1929, in Hoffman and Dukas]

"The religious feeling engendered by experiencing the logical comprehensibility of profound interrelations is of a somewhat different sort from the feeling that one usually calls religious. It is more a feeling of awe at the scheme that is manifested in the material universe. It does not lead us to take the step of fashioning a god-like being in our own image-a personage who makes demands of us and who takes an interest in us as individuals. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being." [Dukas and Hoffman]

"But, on the other hand, every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive." [c. Dukas and Hoffman]

"The cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research. Only those who realize the immense efforts and, above all, the devotion without which pioneer work in theoretical science cannot be achieved are able to grasp the strength of the emotion out of which alone such work, remote as it is from the immediate realities of life, can issue. What a deep conviction of the rationality of the universe and what a yearning to understand. . . It is cosmic religious feeling that gives a man such strength." [The World as I See It]

"In human freedom in the philosophical sense I am definitely a disbeliever. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity." [The World as I See It]

"His [the scientist's] religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection." [The World As I See It]

Answer 11

I dont mind people beliefs as long they dont hurt others

We all die... so does our perceptions and beliefs

Answer 12

Either you have disproved God's existence, or you have taken examples out of any context to form an irrelevant point.

Here is a list of theists:

Isaac Newton

Christopher Columbus

Louis Pasteur

Aristotle

George Washington

William Shakespeare

Alexander the Great

Napoleon (I don't know where you read he was an atheist)

John Locke

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Michelangelo

Thomas Jefferson

John F. Kennedy

Homer

By the way, Einstein was not an atheist.  "In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views." He was either an agnostic or a religious but nondemonational.

Answer 13

Way to be biased.

And way to assume that theists are just Christians.There have been and will continue to be smart and successful religious people.

A few theists:

Martin luther King Jr.

Mother Theresa

Ghandi

George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

Mozart

Beethoven

Handel

Confucius

Galileo ( he just wasn't a fan of the Catholic establishment)

Alexander the Great

Ceasar

The Pharoahs of Egypt, who built the pyramids

Homer

See what I mean?Don't judge a person by their religion or lack thereof.Judge them by what they do.

Answer 14

Atheists

Burn in h**l for all eternity

Christians

Live forever in a paradise

Who is the smart one and who is the fool?