Quote (PixileDust @ Sep 30 2014 10:01pm)
Scaly is right, and you are unequivocally wrong IceMage, as usual. Technological advancement has been directly hindered by religion in almost every way, except for a few examples.
It wasn't until we embraced secularism in business/research that technological advancement started to occur.
We didn't even return to the level of the Roman Empire, in terms of technology, until the 1800's, due to the backwards ways of the catholic rule in Europe.
Examples:
1. Galileo being attacked by the church.
2. The illuminati being developed to combat dumbass religious fanatics in the pursuit of knowledge.
3. The Church preventing people like Leonardo Di Vinci from dissecting cadavers and creating modern medicine (directly leading to lives lost).
4. Darwin being attacked by churches for suggesting evolutionary concepts.
5. Bush & other politicians making genetic/embryonic research illegal for religious reasons.
6. Many modern and correct medicinal practices were considered unorthodox by the church in ancient times, leading to the perpetuation of blood letting and other archaic treatments.
..etc; the list goes on and on.
Scaly is wrong, as are you.
1. Ah, the famous Galileo story. It's at best a blip on the radar when you look at technological progress, or even scientific progress, because it was short lived and soon the church came around.
2. Good point, they are behind the New World order after all.
3. From the quick Google search I did, it looks like this seems to be one of the many atheist claims that doesn't hold any ground.
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What about the dissection of cadavers, supposedly proscribed in a document called De Sepulturis? Did Boniface order that cadavers not be used for medical research, a ban that would land Michael Servetus in jail under Church authority 200 years later?
The reality is that no ban involving the dissection of cadavers for medical research was ever issued by Boniface. De Sepulturis actually referred to a practice of corpse abuse that probably existed at the time. The document condemns cutting up the bodies of the dead, cooking them so that the bones would be separated from the flesh, then carrying the bones back for burial in their homelands.
In De Sepulturis, Pope Boniface said that anyone committing such a barbarous act would be excommunicated. The condemnation had nothing to do with the dissection of cadavers for medical research, but dealt rather with abuse of a corpse—laws which exist in every state of the Union today.
http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/cadavers-calvin-and-anti-catholicism
4. That's one of the few examples, but how exactly did that hinder technological progress? inb4anotherepicstretchofthetruthfromourresidentatheists
5. Like I've said before, that doesn't hinder technological progress.
6. I don't know what you're referring to, but again, that's a hindrance of some medical progress, not technological progress.
BTW fellas, saying "there are so many more examples" without giving any more doesn't help your argument.
This post was edited by IceMage on Sep 30 2014 09:19pm