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Old 08-20-2010, 08:14 PM   #46
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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft View Post
Religion inspired these remarkable feats, whether you like it or not, and whether you want to imagine what "could have been" if they weren't religious or not. To ignore everything that's been done in the name of religion and inspired BY religion is just plain ignorant on your part. And who are you to decide what a great Christian is, or what a great religious person of ANY creed is? Religion is remarkably personal.
You seem to ignore the distinction between artistic talent being hired to create something in a religious time and "religious inspiration". Art will take more of a religious form in more religious times. That does not mean necessarily mean God or the Bible inspired these artists to make better works than they would have in a more secular time. I think ignoring that distinction is ignorant if you want to start throwing that term around.
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