Would we be more technologically advanced without religion?

Gryffon5147
Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:25:59 +0000

it’s killed by the christian dark ages and then shoots up exponentially in the past two centuries or so



Bull****. That’s what happens when you take an utterly Eurocentric, Christian-centric, Western civilization approach to looking at this problem. Was the rate of technological advance in any way falling when they worshipped the gods of Sumer in Mesopotamia? Was it declining when the Egyptians worshipped Ra and Isis? Was it declining when the Greeks and Romans paid tribute to Jupiter and Mars?

And in your theory, modern anti-religious sentiment was responsible for the vast technological improvements in the last two centuries, not the industrial revolution, nor a growing systematic educational system, nor gradually lessening inequality between people of all classes. In fact, the global rate of religious worship has probably increased in the last two centuries, with the advent of mass communication, cheap printing, and world travel. I’m not defending religion, but BS ignorance exists on both sides of the line, and the “facts” they use to attack each other I wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole.