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[–] Kleyno 2 points 7 points (+9|-2) ago 

Actually, they didn't. That is just propaganda they like to spread.

The science that we know today owes its roots entirely to people who refused to accept the world as the religious establishment had ordained it.

They were often branded as heretics, and some were even killed for the audacity to question how the Church degreed the world was ordered.

Science thrived in spite of religion. Never forget that.

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[–] Fuckmesilly [S] 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

That was during the Enlightenment, mostly. Christian schools started scholasticism and began researching medicine, art, and law (and theology but doesn't really apply now) way before the Renaissance. Muslims had their own accomplishments too.

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[–] turtlesarepureevil 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago 

The Enlightenment happened despite religion, not because of it. If in fact religion had something to do with the Enlightenment, what was the purpose of the dark ages? An individual's accomplishments shouldn't be attributed to their religion. Their abysmal mistakes due to them following religious ideology is another matter.

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[–] pjhile 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

The religion is now statism.

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[–] turtlesarepureevil ago 

The null hypothesis is generally assumed to be true until evidence indicates otherwise. Science is atheistic not because it chooses this but because there is no definitive/overwhelming/a decent proof so far of a religion's non-falsehood. Religion has already made an assumption that a deity exists to come to their conclusions on the world, which is an another set limit (of the imagination). Islam has always been violent in its ideology and practice.

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[–] 3198505? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

We all have to develop mechanisms to cope with unanswered questions. Rational inquiry is the most difficult, the most demanding, because it forces you to question everything eventually. Religion gives answers to tired, confused, and scared minds to help people ignore the big unanswered questions. Unfortunately religion pools together the people who are satisfied with unsupported answers and hands their control over to small group of humans, each with their own psychological baggage. Let time pass and allow scared parents to teach their fears and accompanying delusions to their children, let the culture make a copy of a copy of a copy of the belief system and forget entirely that there are important questions being ignored under that belief, and you have a fertile bed for tyranny, hate, and war, epoch after epoch.