RE: Do you think religion is holding society back?
June 28, 2017 at 2:27 pm
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2017 at 2:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 28, 2017 at 9:49 am)SteveII Wrote:You mean, other than the pagan worldview out of which science arose....the one that didn't burn heretics for doing science - the one that both early christers and later catholics cribbed -their- science from?
(June 27, 2017 at 5:30 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Oh, is that how that happened? -and here I thought it was some sort of period of enlightenment, where rationality became prominant, on the backs of some sort of, oh..whats the word..renaissance, of classical pagan thinking?Surveying all the world's civilizations up until that point seems to indicate that the Christian worldview was important in the development of modern science. At the very least, it was the most conducive worldview up to that point.
Turns out the christers opened their bibles and christed all the science into existence.
There is no version of history in which christianity can be called a friend or conducive to science. It was there, resisting science..at every step. It's still there, resisting science, at every step. Today, christers like yourself would like to claim what your forefathers attempted to abort as their own baby.
Sure, now that it's all grown up and christianity looks silly compared to it, you want a piece of the science action. Who wouldn't, but that ship sailed a long, long time ago. Yall had your shot. You blew it. No amount of faithful retconning will change that.
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