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I've never met Professor Knuth, but he taught me a lesson that I treasure.

I suppose these days the best way I can describe it is that his example "de-weaponized" Christianity for me.

It could be said that religion is like a radioactive material; too much of it all together can go boom.

But Prof Knuth's lesson for me was that I didn't have to leave my mind at the door outside when entering a church. I found his book, "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About", a series of talks that he gave at an MIT Symposium.

And I don't, much. Talk about these things. And there's lots I don't like about church and the role we seem to press upon it.

But compassion and honesty seem to work pretty good. I'm grateful.

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