Is God a logical contradiction?

[Amarok]

I'm not sure what you're getting at.  Religious people were the ones responsible for the witch trials (for example).  If someone does something based on their religious belief, I suppose you could make the case that the religion didn't do it, the person did.

But that's kind of problematic, innit?  Since scientifically-minded people solve problems and invent things, then we might say that 'science' did nothing, the people using science did.

I can think of a LOT of instances where deeply, sincerely religious people corrected scientific errors, a lot of them out of religious motivations. But these people were also scientists.  Which way will you have it?

Name me one time religion built something that increased freedom of thought and freely available information.

This is an easy one.  Martin Luther translated the Bible into German.  Happening around the same time as mass printing, this put spirituality into the hands of individuals as opposed to it being filtered through the priesthood.  Are you going to claim that Martin Luther wasn't religious?

Boru

Three problems 

1.Witch trials were purely religious how many atheists or agnostics  do you suppose would be hunting witches ?

2. The science in no way contributed to the discovery itself . Nothing about the scientists religious beliefs had anything to do with the conclusion that's why a Christian  and a Pagan can come to the same conclusion 

3. Putting the Anti freedom doctrine of Protestantism  in the hands of more people seems counter to freedom even if it lessened catholic tyranny