Can you imagine how far along technology and science would be if the church didn't hold train of thought back?

Question

Literally for 1000's of years the churches clutches on society has held back mankind. Can imagine if kepler, galileo, and other great minds weren't persecuted and banished for being right? Think how many great thoughts over the thousands of years men and women have had, but had to remain silent. Or if they did speak their mind these people were banished from towns or even sentenced to jail or death.

Mankind is literally just getting rolling with technology and science. The world would be totally different. Probabaly be much more peaceful too, but that is another subject.

The more peaceful part would come from the less wars that would have been fought or will be fought in the name of God. There is no denying religion as a major cause for war. Cathlics vs Protestants in the 30 year wars....etc. Even today, throughtout the world, wars are being fought over a God.

Answer 1

lol!!
I. Newton was deeply religious, did the church hold him back ? was he banished, persecuted and thrown in jail ?

"Mankind is literally just getting rolling with technology and science."
really ? "there is nothing new under the sun since Archimedes"
S. Ulam
"sience without religion is lame, religion without science is blind"
A. Einstein 1941
Atehist rulers slaughtered about 60,000,000 in the 20th century alone, care to discuss "more peaceful"
BTW, Hitler was an occultist, so please don't bring him up.

Answer 2

I think you are overestimating 2 things. The power and control of the church and the grandness of man's thought. I see where at times the church has tried to do things that would have prohibited or punished certain things but don't think it actually had "man's thought" in it's "clutches." The biggest impact on the advancements in technology and science were the Gutenberg press and mass production. Those 2 things led to the advancements we have seen in the last few hundred years. Even people who had good thoughts were of no real use because their knowledge couldn't be reproduced and spread. And a new invention is useless if only a couple people have it. But go ahead and blame it on the church like everything else. If it weren't for the church we would have cured cancer and found life on other planets that strangely resemble Elvis. Oh, so that's where he went.

Answer 3

There is no denying that Communism and oppression have been major causes of wars.
Was either World War fought over religion?
Was the Civil War fought over religion?
What about The Korean War?
American Revolution?----fought over FREEDOM of religion....the right to worship (or not) as one pleased....


You cannot prove that the world would be more peaceful without religion.

Answer 4

Church is a man made institution and is susceptible to all human shortcomings. Church wishes to retain its position as the only medium between God and man for salvation of mankind. But remember that above every man made institution there is an entity called God whom you can call by the name 'Ultimate Truth' and history bears testimony to the fact that in the ultimate analysis it is the 'TRUTH' that always prevails over falsehood. Church always believed that the earth is flat and is the center of the Universe, but such beliefs have been belied beyond doubt. The modern age is an age of rationality and all that does not confirm to the test of rationality is destined to be destroyed.

Answer 5

Truly, I agree. I was watching Stargate SG1 episodes the other day (I'm on uni break and have to have SOMETHING to do!) and I'm up to season 3, and Daniel Jackson said a quote something like "For 800years technology and advances were taboo - just think if we hadn't had the Dark ages, we'd be 800 years more advanced than we are now" and it really struck a chord with me. Amazing stuff.

Can't change the past though - lets hope humanity has learned from its mistakes (unlikely) and that will never happen again.

Answer 6

kepler was persecuted by protestants. (he was a protestant himself, but the wrong flavour).

the bible was the basis of all teaching for about 400 years (not 1,000s) between 500 and 900 ad. literacy level fell, the practice of civil engineering, medicine and algebra became almost unknown. there were constant religious wars.

luckily the moslems preserved the wisdom of the ancient world during the 'age of the saints' (also called 'the dark ages') and fed it back into europe from about the tenth century on.

science has been moving slowly forwards ever since atheism first appeared during the modern world (we call it 'the renaissance') and progresses faster the more atheists there are.

the church has never fostered scientific learning:- unless you mean the islamic church with its madrassas.

Answer 7

I have thought the same thing. I just heard that Bill Gates is going to hire people from over sea. We here in the USA don't have qualified people for the positions. I believe because we still have IDIOTS running schools trying to do away with Science and teach religion instead. It is obvious that the religious people here on R&S are IDIOTS.

Answer 8

Agree.

The Wright Brothers who invented the airplane - their father was a minister who told them that if men and women were supposed to fly they would have been born with wings.

Some non-profit Churches have even imprisoned or burned as heretics those who belong to other non-profit Churches, for example, John Bunyan of England (jailed).

Answer 9

Explain in what way The Church/ Christianity held back progress. Many of those who led progress over the centuries were Christians.

Answer 10

James P. Hogan did a Sci-Fi book trilogy on this subject years ago beginning with "Inherit The Stars".