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Comment by ecshafer

3 hours ago

Newton, Tolkien, Aquinas, Descarte, Pascal, CS Lewis, Lemaitre, Bach. All famously uncritical humans.

Pascal of the famously backpedaling and unsupportable Wager?

Lewis the apologist?

Bach the "who pays for music around here? OK, I'll get them to pay me" pop songwriter?

All of these folks living so far apart from each other in time and place that some of them would vitriolically deny being of the same religion as some of the others?

(Bach was an awesome composer, but he needed the money and catered to his audience.)