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A good post. As I stated earlier I did not wish to dog on religion but only respond when quoted.Your list contains wars DEEPLY rooted in religious dogma.
We went from burning witches (lol at that nutbaggery) to molesting little boys.
Organized religion is evil in every sense of the world and mankind is likely hundreds of years behind in knowledge and technology as a result.
To blame ALL Christians for the misguided deeds of SOME is to blame all Americans past & present for early American slavery. And you also would be incorrect.
As if ALL Christians burned witches and ALL Christians molest little boys.
You paint with far too wide a brush. Those who oppose religion, also resist the notion that much good has been done in the name of religion, to the benefit of mankind.
Among the early scientists of note who held the Biblical creationist world view are Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), and Samuel Morse (1791-1872) - what motivated them was a confidence in the "rationality" behind the universe and the "goodness" of the material world.
Christianity and Technological Advance - The Astonishing Connection
Religious belief is not inherently a bad thing. And bad people can distort intent.
I never ment to suggest all Christians are bad and in fact don't believe that. I do believe they are all misguided but that means little in the grand scheme of things.
My main point is that ORGANIZED religion is a farce and has held back the human race from advancements because of the dogma it is founded upon.
I have noticed a slight change in the practice of denying science but at this point the cat is out of the bag, so to speak, so the church can no longer fight the flood waters. At this point they are trying to co opt scientific study with grand announcements about how they don't disprove the bible despite not being contained in the book who's very pages say anything added to them is false. (Run on sentence, I know)
I've disprove every one of your claims.
Nor have I stated support for any particular iteration of religion, simply pointed out that religion is a step forward for humanity, as opposed to the secular iterations of religion: communism, socialism, Liberalism, Progressivism, Fascism and Nazism.
All of the above six subscribe to the very antithesis of Judeo-Christian tradition.....this:
"We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life." Leon Trotsky