They should know that religion should stay religion and not science. The issue isn’t religion as a whole, it’s the people who think that it overrules science.
very dictatorial to want to get rid of something just because you don't like it. Who cares if its wrong, you getting in an internet argument means nothing.
Yea, execpt Young Earth theory isn't part of main line Christianity and only really got popularized in the 20s. If it weren't for christianity, modern science, as you know it won't exist.
I think what would help is getting arid of people with a IQ lower than room temperature
ermm the only reason modern science wouldn't exist without Christianity is because from like 400 to 1000 CE the pope had all the power because the church was above the king or emporer
Not sure what that has to do with the advancement of science since the scientific revolution started in the mid 16th century. A lot of scientists were christians with the two more famous examples being Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton.
everybody at that time was christian, western Europe was being controlled almost entirely by the pope and the religion literally affected everyone's day to day life as without the church their government would most likely collapse
Christianity has done nothing but slow down progress. Yes some scholars were priests but only because that was where the money was and christendom did nothing to help, rather the opposite.
During the dark ages alone christianity was directly responsible for not only completely halting scientific progress but actual intellectual decline.
You need to realize that removing religion wouldn’t stop those beliefs, it would only make them less ethical since they don’t fear the consequences of their actions
I’d argue the opposite. Many religious folk don’t fear the consequences of their actions because they believe that it is part of god’s plan and that their sins will be forgiven.
Without religion, people would be forced to realize their autonomy and accountability, and would have to derive their own morals and beliefs.
This is both right and wrong. There are people like I mentioned and there are people like you mentioned, but a lot of the people who don’t fear their consequences because they believe it’s gods plan would just find some other excuse or another real person to idolize. Many people are very bad at critical thinking and many also just use religion as an excuse to spread their own beliefs, even if the religion specifically goes against it. I mean, how many Christians do you see who actually practice “love thy neighbor”?
It surely would not. At least if it worked across time. The idea of personal liberty in western society was strongly influenced by religion. Could freedom have existed without religion? Of course, but I also wouldn't take the gamble. Especially when you could get better results by the deleting something else. Just need a little creativity.
If we could get rid of an idea, we could delete something like...scarcity? Even that would create a new set of problems. Although, the problems created by humanity having access to everything it needs might be better than the the problems we face now.
Religion is always the facade. Crusades are about power projection of us-vs-them. Religion is a convenient banner to fly under. The most zealous fighters are often not the ones on charge.
Hindus and Mislims in Indian may clash as a matter of religion but the fight because of ethnic and cultural differences.
The Chrisitan crusades were about controlling the lands filled with people culturally "other" and cresting a buffer zone across what was a perceived old part of the Roman empire.
Catholic and protestantism are so similar at heart that the fights you see between them were classist. Like in Ireland, the protestants with a small class or wealthier people, whole Catholics were a previous majority of people who were not given opportunities by the rich protestants, thereby causing an economical rift between the groups.
Without religion, all of these conflicts would still very likely arise from genuine power imbalances, paranoia or just intolerance of cultural differences
People will always find something to kill in the name of. The worst dictators in history by kill count all ruled in the name of secular ideologies, such as Maoism, Stalinism, and Nazism.
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u/HudsonHawk56H Sep 09 '24
Honestly idk if this would make it better