Re: nice quote


"ModLang" <ModLang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from
> a religious conviction."
>
> ~ Blaise Pascal
>
> http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Blaise_Pascal


Pascal was a very interesting person with both a keen mathmatical mind and a
deep religious conviction.
You should read Pascal's Wager for a bit more.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/
In a nutshell....
If God does not exist, one will lose nothing by believing in him, while if
he does exist, one will lose everything by not believing.
also..
At once a physicist, a mathematician, an eloquent publicist in the
Provinciales ... Pascal was embarrassed by the very abundance of his
talents. It has been suggested that it was his too concrete turn of mind
that prevented his discovering the infinitesimal calculus, and in some of
the Provinciales the mysterious relations of human beings with God are
treated as if they were a geometrical problem. But these considerations are
far outweighed by the profit that he drew from the multiplicity of his
gifts, his religious writings are rigorous because of his scientific
training...

Cliff




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