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**Yswxomvy** · 11-13-2008, 11:30 PM

Originally posted by FrostyBoy
What would civilization be like? Brutal? Peaceful? Would we be more advanced or less advanced?

Something tells me we would be more brutal and less advanced.

More brutal because we would recognise that we are all there are, there's nothing to aspire to.

Religion opened up mathematics, engineering, war - which lead to important inventions, the printing press, it even opened up our minds to imagine in that which doesn't exist. You claim we'd be more brutal without religion, but then state that Religion "opened up" war? What's more brutal than war, particularly as it was practiced in, say, Biblical times?

I don't think you thought this through very clearly...

11-13-2008, 11:30 PM	#21
Yswxomvy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 523 Senior Member	Originally posted by FrostyBoy What would civilization be like? Brutal? Peaceful? Would we be more advanced or less advanced? Something tells me we would be more brutal and less advanced. More brutal because we would recognise that we are all there are, there's nothing to aspire to. Religion opened up mathematics, engineering, war - which lead to important inventions, the printing press, it even opened up our minds to imagine in that which doesn't exist. You claim we'd be more brutal without religion, but then state that Religion "opened up" war? What's more brutal than war, particularly as it was practiced in, say, Biblical times? I don't think you thought this through very clearly...
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