... if the church was still a political power?
Remember Vesalius, Galileo, Copernicus? Do you think we´d have gone to the moon? Do you think we´d have medicine? Anesthesia? Democracy?
Is it coincidental that the industrial revolution more or less coincides with the separation of church and state in many countries?
Christians say that everything produced by science is there because god put it in the heads of the researchers. Why hasn´t he done that 7,500 years ago in Catalhoyuk (turkey) or in Ur?
Why wait millenia and millions of people suffering from easy (today) to cure illnesses.
The church is moving with a low profile these days because its political power is best used in the shadows. In its heyday didn´t it bully, burned, tortured, emprisonned for life, caused horrendous wars? Wouldn´t it do the same if it had the chance?
Look at the countries that went back to fundamentalism, Do they thrive?
Is that the future that you want for your kids?
Is that god´s glory for you?
2007-07-26
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