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Politics : Evolution
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To: Solon who wrote (45387)1/22/2014 9:00:06 PM
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Jefferson, given it was a time you could be charged with heresy for using lightning rods to channel electricity, you'd be at physical risk being an agnostic & a career ender. After 2000yrs they finally started to catch on just like the elctro ~shocked nimrods of today we have to raise up like little children.

The last place you wanted to be as in a church with high steeples

It took many years for scientists to persuade the priests to attach a lightning rod to the spire of St. Bride's Church in London, even though it had been destroyed by lightning several times. The first major blow against these biblical superstitions about storms and lightning was struck in 1752 when Benjamin Franklin made his famous electrical experiments with a kite. That was known as Franklin's Unholy Lightning Rod.

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In America, Rev. Thomas Prince, pastor of Old South Church, blamed Franklin's invention of the lightning rod for causing the Massachusetts earthquake of 1755. The priests' refusals prompted the following letter from the president of Harvard University to Franklin: "How astonishing is the force of prejudice even in an age of so much knowledge and free inquiry. It is amazing to me, that after the full demonstration you have given . . . they should even think of repairing that steeple without such conductors."
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