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Old 02-13-2009, 11:33 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Re: Does Religion Breed Ignorance?

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Originally Posted by Clodhopper View Post
Agree with a lot of this. Though I don't think the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a matter of religious war, it was race war.

Religion, like a gun, is neutral but dangerous. It is the use made of it which is good or evil.

So religion can breed ignorance, as a look at any fundamentalist cult will show; but it can also conserve and spread knowledge, which is what happened with the European Christian Church after the Fall of Rome.



Would you please explain this in greater depth CH? I am in complete agreement with you but want to know why you believe it.

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