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To: Solon who wrote (45387)	1/22/2014 9:00:06 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

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. Message 29340939 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."

To: Solon who wrote (45387)	1/22/2014 9:07:48 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 69300

Just the other day in Rio de Janero, striking photo.... and they thought the pagans were guilty of idolatry...same implulse

To: Solon who wrote (45387)	1/22/2014 10:25:58 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

"You are quite free to consider the man who took out "god's" words (and replaced them with his own and called it the bible) as a Christian, if you so choose!" I just thought it amusing to showcase your ill considered opinions as obviously biased and inconsistent. I consider neither man to have been a Christian, as usual you miss the point. By your own standard, you should be arguing for Jefferson the Christian with the same force that you do for Hitler the Christian.