The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it. Hence it is precisely among the heretics of every age that we find men who were filled with this highest kind of religious feeling and were in many cases regarded by their contemporaries as atheists, sometimes also as saints. Looked at in this light, men like Democritus, Francis of Assisi, and Spinoza are closely akin to one another. Albert Einstein
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Albert Camus raises this question in his essay, The Myth of Sisyphus. He then answers that the fundamental characteristic of the modern age is that “man's rebellion against God is now expressed in the refusal to create.” This kind of religious feeling is what made Bertrand Russell, one of the greatest philosophers in history, say “I hope to die a heretic.” Some might see this as an irrational statement, but consider the ultimate question: Is there any greater glory than to die for what you believe?

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