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If there were no atheists?
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RE: If there were no atheists?
(July 20, 2018 at 8:53 am)Mr.Obvious Wrote: Without atheists and agnostics, i could see us functioning at an equavalence to now.

Without skeptics, however... We'd be far behind.

As was pointed out in the book Cosmos, it was religious orthodoxy and the associated oppression that killed the nascent Greek scientific revolution, mostly by killing off the best thinkers. Only for christianity was very much weakened by the wars of religion after the reformation, the Enlightenment went the same way.
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If there were no atheists? - by Graufreud - July 20, 2018 at 8:13 am
RE: If there were no atheists? - by Pat Mustard - July 20, 2018 at 8:30 am
RE: If there were no atheists? - by Mister Agenda - July 20, 2018 at 8:48 am
RE: If there were no atheists? - by Mr.Obvious - July 20, 2018 at 8:53 am
RE: If there were no atheists? - by Pat Mustard - July 20, 2018 at 2:43 pm
RE: If there were no atheists? - by Astreja - July 20, 2018 at 9:00 am
RE: If there were no atheists? - by robvalue - July 20, 2018 at 9:14 am
RE: If there were no atheists? - by vorlon13 - July 20, 2018 at 9:23 am
RE: If there were no atheists? - by Gawdzilla Sama - July 20, 2018 at 9:23 am
RE: If there were no atheists? - by Fireball - July 20, 2018 at 10:46 am
RE: If there were no atheists? - by Minimalist - July 20, 2018 at 12:37 pm
RE: If there were no atheists? - by Chad32 - July 20, 2018 at 9:25 am
RE: If there were no atheists? - by FatAndFaithless - July 20, 2018 at 9:26 am
RE: If there were no atheists? - by brewer - July 20, 2018 at 9:31 am
RE: If there were no atheists? - by Crossless2.0 - July 20, 2018 at 9:39 am
RE: If there were no atheists? - by mlmooney89 - July 20, 2018 at 9:51 am
RE: If there were no atheists? - by Anomalocaris - July 20, 2018 at 10:11 am
RE: If there were no atheists? - by purplepurpose - July 20, 2018 at 11:08 am
RE: If there were no atheists? - by Anomalocaris - July 20, 2018 at 11:15 am
RE: If there were no atheists? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - July 20, 2018 at 1:08 pm
RE: If there were no atheists? - by purplepurpose - July 20, 2018 at 1:33 pm
RE: If there were no atheists? - by CapnAwesome - July 20, 2018 at 2:39 pm
RE: If there were no atheists? - by Minimalist - July 20, 2018 at 3:21 pm
RE: If there were no atheists? - by Angrboda - July 20, 2018 at 4:22 pm

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