(August 15, 2016 at 12:43 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(August 15, 2016 at 12:40 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Belief in god hampers the search for knowledge. If the answer is god can do anything by magic then looking for how stuff really happened is pointless.
While in theory this is true, I don't think that in actual practice it has that much of a stifling effect.
It takes all kinds to make a world. Not everybody is on a search for knowledge. Some just want to live their lives.
True for the majority but then you have to look at the advances made when religion is supreme to when it isn't and the difference is obvious. Partly due to the above and partly due to the ruling religion actively discouraging progress.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
