In fact most famous people achieved their famous results secularly, regardless of whether they were religous in private, going all the way back to Galileo and beyond, not to mention the fame undying of Archimedes, Aristotle, Plato, Euripides, Pythagoras, Galen, Cicero, and others in their legacy too numerous to count here. More recently, I offer Camus, Descartes, Flaubert, Whitman, Joyce...the list is so innumerable that the question rapidly is revealed as a stupid one.


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