[AussiePam]

What is amazing to me, gmc, is that when religion became totally dominant - and I'm not referring to one religion more than another here - scholarship and learning declined, or rather was diverted into the minutiae of scriptural interpretation and legalistic trivialities - is it permissible to press a lift button on the sabbath, is it okay to show half an inch of female ankle, how many angels can you fit on a pinhead, creationism. Totalitarian relgion stifled science, free speech, free movement, debate, education.