(March 21, 2013 at 11:49 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: I'm sick of these stupid arguments that come up between atheists and theists about which side killed more or which side caused advances in technology and science because it's pointless! It proves nothing about the existence of God or the validity of atheism.
Maybe Hitler was a Christian and maybe he was an atheist. Who cares? Maybe Christianity helped the development of modern science and technology or maybe Christianity stalled it. So what? None of it matters when we're discussing the existence of God!
Those arguments aren't brought up while discussing the existence of god. They're brought up while discussing how much harm religion causes.