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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Jul 30 13:01:46 2011, in response to Re: Those atheists are at it again, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Jul 29 21:39:59 2011. That's correct, in a way. Not God telling them, but a religious zeal to find out how stuff worked and how it could be used to advance humanity on Earth. Look at all the people who made the major technological inventions/advancements from the 18th and early 19th century that are crucial to producing our modern way of life and you will notice that almost all of them belonged to devout Christian sects (Dissenters, Quakers, Baptists, Presbyterians, Glassites, etc). Just about every single person involved with the invention of the steam engine was a "religious fanatic", from Thomas Newcomen to James Watt.Like I said elsewhere, you can't remove Christianity from the equation and just assume we'd be far more technologically advanced than we are now. In fact, the opposite would probably be more accurate, and I am only limiting this to technological advancements, not social. The fight against slavery was initially fought entirely by religious fanatics. Our secular, rational Founding Fathers never found a way to end it, did they? |
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