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I greatly enjoyed and appreciated this article. Thanks to the person who posted it. As with all things human, there is a wide diversity of expressions of Christian belief. The thing that stood out most for me in this article was the human depth, compassion, and wisdom of Faraday and Maxwell. There is a vein of Christianity today (as ever) that is wise, mature, sane, and thoughtful. There is also, of course, a type of Christianity today that is none of these things. Generally, it seems that the most vocal are the least mature. One averts one's eyes with sadness and pain at the many vocal displays intellectually trivial Christianity. All too often, immature proponents of atheism and materialism delight in heaping contempt and ridicule on this sort of Christianity, as though it were the whole of Christianity. It is indeed a humbling experience to be a believing member of a community that is the object of such frequent, intense, and painful contempt and hatred. The experienced intimidation is such that it fills me with dread even to make a comment in this forum. However, I would note that the uppermost echelons of science and engineering are not without a non-trivial representation of people of active and profound religious belief, even today. (This constitutes a sort of existence proof; "there exists at least one leading scientist who is also a person of active religious faith.") Personally, I am stellar neither as a scientist nor as a Catholic, but they are the twin foundations of my being. My faith motivated me to make a momentous decision, and devote the remainder of my career to the alleviation of human suffering insofar as I am able; I have the privilege of developing embedded software that runs ventilators for neonatal intensive care and other applications.


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