(June 27, 2017 at 5:15 pm)Sal Wrote: To answer OP, yes.
Religious fanaticism gave us the Dark Ages and the Catholic Church vehemently silenced, tortured and murdered dissenters.
The dark ages were started by the fall of a corrupt Roman Empire that failed to defend itself from barbaric forces outside of Christianity, the church eventually helped to pull the western world out of that darkness through literacy, why, because the Bible was being translated into different languages and the people began to have the desire to learn and read the Bible in their own languages and find out what the Church was hiding from them, the reformers were great men and served the people well.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
