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Technology was Religion's Bitch
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Posted 2008-04-07, 04:58 PM in reply to
Demosthenes
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"I wouldn't say Islam is innocent in..."
That's an interesting point, Wed - that the Church itself was acting in its own interests, rather than because their religion was against it.
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What sort of time period are you talking about, then?
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When religion started playing an active role in how science should be viewed, the progress of science declined.
As early as 936AD with the founding of the Ash'ari school? After the Crusades? Around the beginning of the Ottoman Empire?
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