Atheists & Agnostics

....no doubt religion has pushed back against all sorts of social norms changing. Women's rights, minority rights, the freedom to do what you wish with your own body, and family.

Seems like greed and a lust for power could easily retard and delay some scientific advances. Back-stabbing, dirty tricks, outright theft can benefit one side over another in competition, but the science wins out, and someone gets very rich. Religious fools might have initially discouraged spaceflight, because it's not in the Bible! But it's often not strong enough to stop science.

If you look hard enough, you can find some common sense in the Bible, but most of it is no sense. You can find other "ways to live" in countless other books

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