Baruch Spinoza was born a Sepharic Jew. Because of his writings he was kicked out of the Jewish community and an attempt was made on his life. I'm not certain whether the Christian churches cared for him either.
In spite of him being a Jew, I think he was a good philosopher. I particularly like his idea that thoughts and things are one and the same and his ethics, that the greatest good is to know God. Spinoza's God, however, was not some spook in the sky but was here on earth to be found in nature.
Links to Spinoza's work etc.,
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~rbombard/RB/S...ica-front.html
http://authorsdirectory.com/biograph...ne_books.shtml
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/aut/spinoza.html
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