(December 28, 2015 at 6:48 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: I'm arguing there's a link between religion and progress, the less of the former, the more of the latter. I don't have to be a historian to make that claim. Or do I? - I may be wrong.
That only works if you take a very broad definition of religion to include such things as Stalin's Soviet Union or Mao's China -- state religion, I suppose. Otherwise, there are examples of regimes in which religion was, if not eliminated, at least forced deep underground that aren't known as shining examples of "progress" except perhaps on a state-funded technical level.
