Christianity QA

Question:

- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Now look very carefully at the chart in Figure 2 on page 3 and notice the dates and longevity rates. http://tinyurl.com/yq57 The rise of science and the weakening of religion is directly responsible for a higher quality of life in the world today. You clearly misspelled "a longer life." Nope. You clearly did not look at the chart. Here it is again: http://tinyurl.com/yq57 My statement regards a higher quality of life thanks to science: "improved public health, including sanitary sewers and clean drinking water". While it is true that this improved quality of life has led to longer human life, religious institutions fought against the benefits of science for centuries, resulting in an average life expectancy between 35-40 years, if one was lucky enough not to die in childbirth or before puberty.  The history of the Christian Church is a painful, primitive, superstitious commentary on pure evil masquerading as "truth".  Medical doctors were forbidden to cure patients because everyone knew that disease was a "sin", and God’s will could not be countered: "…sickness was "regarded as the finger of Providence. God used illness for a multitude of higher purposes…as a punishment…" [9]. Disease "was routinely interpreted as the consequence of sin, crime, or moral fault, as precipitated by evil spirits, or as the work of black magic. Disease was thus personalized and given a moral or religious meaning." [10]. Doctors would also have declared the healing power of Christ in the world, and that Antimony, prayer and fasting were the sole cures." http://www.homeoint.org/morrell/otherarticles/antibiotic.htm Under the guidance of the Church, doctors neither cured patients nor provided relief from pain and suffering.  There can be no greater example of evil in the world than the Christian Church prior to the reclaiming of classical knowledge destroyed by those who pretended to be represenatives of "God" and "Truth". And once the knowledge of the pre-Christian scientists like Hippocrates was reclaimed and put back into practice, a higher quality of life was the result.  The victory of knowledge over dogma, was the victory of science over religion. Science improved the quality of life for everyone and longevity was one of the benefits that the public reaped from unfettered, free inquiry.  Show me the benefits civilization has realized from the tired tenets and dog-eared dogmas of the Mother Church and I’ll show you a pile of rotting corpses, condemned to an early death. I would like to hear more on this topic.

Oh, it’s even better than that.  You left out the part about burning 8 year old girls to death at the stake for "witchcraft", believed to be the cause of epidemics of infectious diseases and bad weather. — MarkA (still caught in the maze of twisty little passages, all different)

Response:

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Now look very carefully at the chart in Figure 2 on page 3 and notice the dates and longevity rates. http://tinyurl.com/yq57 The rise of science and the weakening of religion is directly responsible for a higher quality of life in the world today. You clearly misspelled "a longer life." Nope. You clearly did not look at the chart. Here it is again: http://tinyurl.com/yq57 My statement regards a higher quality of life thanks to science: "improved public health, including sanitary sewers and clean drinking water". While it is true that this improved quality of life has led to longer human life, religious institutions fought against the benefits of science for centuries, resulting in an average life expectancy between 35-40 years, if one was lucky enough not to die in childbirth or before puberty.  The history of the Christian Church is a painful, primitive, superstitious commentary on pure evil masquerading as "truth".  Medical doctors were forbidden to cure patients because everyone knew that disease was a "sin", and God’s will could not be countered: "…sickness was "regarded as the finger of Providence. God used illness for a multitude of higher purposes…as a punishment…" [9]. Disease "was routinely interpreted as the consequence of sin, crime, or moral fault, as precipitated by evil spirits, or as the work of black magic. Disease was thus personalized and given a moral or religious meaning." [10]. Doctors would also have declared the healing power of Christ in the world, and that Antimony, prayer and fasting were the sole cures." http://www.homeoint.org/morrell/otherarticles/antibiotic.htm Under the guidance of the Church, doctors neither cured patients nor provided relief from pain and suffering.  There can be no greater example of evil in the world than the Christian Church prior to the reclaiming of classical knowledge destroyed by those who pretended to be represenatives of "God" and "Truth". And once the knowledge of the pre-Christian scientists like Hippocrates was reclaimed and put back into practice, a higher quality of life was the result.  The victory of knowledge over dogma, was the victory of science over religion. Science improved the quality of life for everyone and longevity was one of the benefits that the public reaped from unfettered, free inquiry.  Show me the benefits civilization has realized from the tired tenets and dog-eared dogmas of the Mother Church and I’ll show you a pile of rotting corpses, condemned to an early death.

I would like to hear more on this topic.

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