Christianity only became legal by 313 AD. This guy really thinks we'd be on the moon by 400 AD lol
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You can thank our church for the introduction of mass-produced books available to the masses, universities, and equal rights for women.
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I'll point this out here; I'm willing to bet that the majority of athiests commenters will focus solely on science, as if it's the most important thing. It's almost as if it's a religious pursuit itself. As if we haven't already seen the ill effects of spreading anti-Christian "rationality" in Western society. Even Dawkins seems to be realizing this, even if he won't accept any blame.
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Why would one expect law and order to be found in the universe under atheism?
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It's foolish to deny the impotant role christianity in our western culture and how it shaped it, and also the role of the church in the creation of universities as we see today. But to say that christianity is responsible ultimately for our scientific advances, our moral intuition and our way of thinking logically and the use of reason is as foolish. We based our epistemlogy on the philosophies of the ancient greeks most of all, even St. Acquinas took the aristotelian "motor prima" concept when describing the arguments for the existance of god, and the church and Christian monks were responsible of preserving the text of the ancient greeks and thanks to this the enlightment era started. Also, during the medieval times, the Muslim world had their golden age of science and mathematics, which are useful until this day; Is this evidence for allah and islam? Because many bright scientists in the golden age of islam were Muslims? No, of course not. Just because democritus and leucippus proposed the existence of "atoms" thousands of years ago, with basically 0 evidence, does it means that the deities they believed in are real or more Likely to be ? We can say the same for the ancient greek Hippocrates of Kos who is considered the "Father of medicine". Also, not Because most of scientists and philosophers today are non-religious, agnostic and atheists it means that there is no god at all.
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Noooooo. One author wrote, somewhere, at some time, something. You can’t beat that argument. Atheist: 1 Theists: 0
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What's wrong with imagining where we might have been without religion? Perhaps we WOULD be way ahead, perhaps not. But the second comment is ridiculous, agreed.
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Sure. You can also just look up good old "natural philosophy", if you want to truly know, where all the good ideas of science already have been cultivated.
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All the science and civilization came out of Persia and without the need for Abrahamic religions. Zoroaster and Ostanes are the founders of sciences.
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His point stands. You can't use the fact that science was pushed forward by Christianity as a point towards it, the religion itself has persecuted many scientists as well as holding back science in multiple ways. Just saying, without religious conflict and drama it's possible that humanity would be a lot better off. Maybe not, but there's a good argument to be made
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