Only Christians

In her latest post Dumbgirl posits that it is only Christians who change the world for the better. She goes on to ask:

"I'd love to see a long list of non-Christians who have changed the world for the better."
-- Amy "Dumbgirl" Proctor

Someone mentioned Gandhi and she admitted that he was a non-christian who changed the world for the better. I know that she would not allow me to comment there so here is a brief list of some other non-christians who have changed the world for the better:

• Thomas Jefferson
  
• Tenzin Gyatso
  
• Margaret Sanger
  
• Shirin Ebadi
  
• Friedrich Nietzsche
  
• Pythagoras
  
• Bill Gates
  
• Steve Wozniak
  
• Benjamin Franklin
  
• Elie Wiesel
  
• Voltaire
  
• Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa
  
• Ani DiFranco
  
• Socrates
  
• Plato
  
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
• Eddie Vedder
  
• Aristotle
  
• Euclid
  
• Confucius
  
• Siddhartha Gautama Buddha
  
• Lao Tzu
  
• John Adams
  
• John Quincy Adams
  
• Richard Leakey
  
• David Hume
  
• Wangari Maathai
  
• Vandana Shiva
  
• Aung San Suu Kyi
  
• Bertrand Russell
  
• ...

A statement like that is just stupid. Is she that wrapped up in christianity to see beyond it? Is she unaware that there are non-western cultures? At least sixty-seven percent of the world's population is non-christian.

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