• richieadler
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    10 months ago
    No such thing. Any ideology based and unprovable and unverified claims is a mistake by definition.
    

    Given that religion is the root of past major civilizations which we are built on I’d say we wouldn’t have science without it.

    We wouldn’t have science without oxygen either, and that doesn’t mean that science owes its existence to oxygen. The post-hoc fallacy runs rampant in your assertion.

    Hardly a mistake in my opinion.

    Is religion based in unverified and unverified claims? Yes. That’s by definition a mistake. I don’t care about how useful or convenient it is or it was in the past; I only care about whether is true or not, and if we’re justified in accepting it based on that. Accepting untruths for convenience is always a mistake.

    We might still be beating each other in the head with rocks without religion.

    That nonsense would be hilarious if it wasn’t tragic.