Neat read that I think I will have to come back to.
I think it should be clear that religion clearly was not a historical road block to progress. If only because of how religious many of the names we can remember were.
I have grown to read a lot of modern criticisms of Christianity with difficulty. Too many people pushing the criticisms seem to take the view that the ills of the past were unique to Christianity. Which, again, we have plenty of evidence that people do bad things. In many contexts.
I would be interested to know what has given rise to some of the modern conflict with religions. To this day, I can't come up with a reason for people not directly studying it to care how old the earth is. And I'm always at a complete loss for people that don't believe in dinosaurs. Or the flat earth stuff. Just how is that spreading?
I think it should be clear that religion clearly was not a historical road block to progress. If only because of how religious many of the names we can remember were.
I have grown to read a lot of modern criticisms of Christianity with difficulty. Too many people pushing the criticisms seem to take the view that the ills of the past were unique to Christianity. Which, again, we have plenty of evidence that people do bad things. In many contexts.
I would be interested to know what has given rise to some of the modern conflict with religions. To this day, I can't come up with a reason for people not directly studying it to care how old the earth is. And I'm always at a complete loss for people that don't believe in dinosaurs. Or the flat earth stuff. Just how is that spreading?