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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
Here is a list I recently made of some of my favorite apostates. What do you think of it?
The historical Jesus
Paul of Tarsus
Dostoevky
Tolstoy
The Founding Fathers of the United States
Spinoza
David Hume
Adam Smith
Joseph Smith
Nietzche
Darwin
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I know you're being provocative by listing these individuals as apostates, but in reality, they are better classified as heretics or paradigm shifters. They felt moved to confront the social fabric, to tear it apart and to make it anew. That's not what a typical apostate does, but that is what heretic of the normal society is.