Religion isn't the root of all evil, it just impedes process, it always has. While I admit that pre-monotheistic religions made massive strides in astronomy. But this progress was slowed to a crawl, forcing people like Galileo and Newton to restrict their discoveries to fit within the confines of religious doctrine. Honestly if we hadn't been arguing over the morality of stem cell research, how far along would that field would be now? If all our greatest minds could focus on progress and not defend themselves against absurdly zealous believers, we could do the extraordinary at a steady pace, not one uphill.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
