Your views on religion

[maestro15]

Since its almost Christmas, i would like to talk about religion. I personally am Jewish, and I study more science than religion. I have looked through the history of mankind and i have made a conclusion that as sciences strengthens, religion weakens. What are your views on religion? Do you think that if Christianity allowed the study of sciences during the middle ages, do you think we we would be advanced in our technologies, and would there be more athiets?

[The Batman]

TWPR :arrow: ROTW

[INFERNO]

Do you think that if Christianity allowed the study of sciences during the middle ages, do you think we we would be advanced in our technologies

Possibly but hard to say by what amount.


would there be more athiets?

The problem here is that there are different types of atheists and atheists vary in their beliefs. For example, LaVeyan Satanists are atheists and Christians are atheistic in a sense. Even if the number of atheists increased or decreased, we cannot reasonably say that the fluctuations were due to increasing science without ruling out other possibilities, such as people not worshiping a deity but sticking to a philosophy such as Taoism.

[Contra]

Do you think that if Christianity allowed the study of sciences during the middle ages, do you think we we would be advanced in our technologies

You know, that actually makes sense, but can't know now, can we?

[Bluearmy]

Well seeing how they had primitive tools compared to the technology we have now that is used for scientific research, I still think there would have been limits to what the scientists of those days (Renaissance) could have figured out. I believe that even if they went as far as they could go with the support of the church, there still would have been things that we know now that they could not have figured out. Thus, God would still be put as the only conclusion since people tend to label things they do not understand as supernatural almost automatically. More so back then.

Would there be more atheists now? Maybe, but I don't think to such an extent that it would be alarming.

Would we have advanced quicker? I most defiantly think so. So many things could have been accomplished and discovered. Things that simply didn't come to light because the church decided it was blasphemy or witch-craft.