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Good facts, makes me want to read Origin of the Species even more now.

Interesting also is that it wasn't his scientific observations or study that made him lose his faith, it was personal events - tragedies.

Sort of reinforces the concept that science and religion are not incompatible (since he seemed to have no scientific problem with religion) and that it takes personal reasons to lose faith, not scientific...

ie. When presented with science and hard facts, a believer is more likely to reconcile those to their faith than to lose it. But when faced with the loss of a loved one, they question everything they believe.
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These comments have been fascinating.

@Ted, appreciate you know your stuff and not trying to twist your words but it was the line "To say, “There’s nothing in the Bible that says the Olympics were bad or Christianity is a state religion” is specious." that needed refuting. Perhaps I could have addressed the rest of your comment too as I don't disagree with everything else you said.

@Seth, thanks for balanced the insight!
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Of course not. Both sides were at each other until the pagan religions were pretty much wiped off the face of the earth. You can say that’s not what Christianity is all about, but that’s what happened at the time.

Sadly it is very true. History shows that evil people can corrupt anything intended for good.
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@Ted.

Show me where the in the Bible (the commonly world known accepted one) it instructs Christians to:

1. Become the official state religion.
2. Ban the Olympics.
3. Persecute non-Christians.
4. Torture sinners.

You may be right on the history angle but you are without a shadow of a doubt, dead wrong on the biblical angle. Your comment shows that aside from dipping in and out you haven't studied the book at all.
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I was actually enjoying these factoids till it got to #10.

What's the deal with "Christianity killed the games" when it was an Emperor who had not quite fully grasped the gospel.

A case from my own history, when I became I Christian I chucked all my Iron Maiden cd's, something I now deeply regret, but I went out and bought their "best of" compilation a few years ago and downloaded the rest.

Why couldn't the title be "The Romans killed the games" heck why not "Italians killed the games".

+ Why are some people on here getting upset that some skygod believers trashed some other skygod believers temple? Would you complain if some church buildings got trashed today - I imagine you'd celebrate?

People in glass houses...
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