RE: Will we witness the transition from a type 0 to a type I civilization in 100 years?
May 9, 2013 at 6:40 pm
I would personally posit that religion is the worst agent of all in retarding the advancement of our species. It is certainly having that effect here in the US.
Politics gets in the way very often because the religious zealots hijack the party, as they've done with the GOP. Religious fervor in general leads to hard core social conservatism, as is evidenced by the war of women's right to control her own body in this country, among other things. That is also true in the Islamic countries, the wingnuts want to take things back to the time of the prophet, ffs! Hitchens was right, religion poisons everything.
Politics gets in the way very often because the religious zealots hijack the party, as they've done with the GOP. Religious fervor in general leads to hard core social conservatism, as is evidenced by the war of women's right to control her own body in this country, among other things. That is also true in the Islamic countries, the wingnuts want to take things back to the time of the prophet, ffs! Hitchens was right, religion poisons everything.
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
