A fictional character taught us about truth lmao

Guns really did become a great equalizer...

The fool says in his heart, there is no God

Then I'm a proud fool

Illiteracy helped a lot. And the fact that the bible hasn't been translated into common languages, so the generic population couldn't read the bible. People with ulterior motifs used that to justify whatever with it.

@Aquila Fiacra Then why is it still the same?

Never be proud. Pride is the greatest and worst of the sins. The sharpest of all double-edged blades.

@Jake the Exile Pardon?

What do you mean?

People weren't completely illiterate, The early church spread through letters.

A lot of which only the local noble could read for them

And the Old Testament was read widely, and publicly.

By the local noble, or pastor.

You act like everyone involved with Christianity was stupid and uneducated.

Paul was a Pharisee.

Easier to pay a smaller workforce

The illiteracy rate of the middle ages was extremely high. Nearly 100%. Only a few chosen were able to read. Rarely any of the commoners could. Let alone Latin. They had to rely on pastors, preachers and monks.

Blaise Pascal Quotes. There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

That's why Martin Luthers translation of the Bible into common German sparked a revolution or two.

The people who spread the teachings and wrote to churches with instruction (which is the bulk of the New Testament) were all literate in several languages.

Yeah, but not the common farmer

The people that made the bulk of any population before the industrialization

The comon farmer could still listen.

And those who spoke were not exempt from abusing their position

Hey, not everyone involved with Christianity was stupid and uneducated. A few of them went on to become great scientists, who then after becoming intelligent and educated, denounced Christianity, or were just plain persecuted for learning too much and tainting the populace.

#ListenAndBelieve

Christianity is a cultural stabilizer, not so much a scientific one

@Lios Oh please. The only time when Christianity actively denounced science is when it went out of its way to create an openly contrary dogma.

Best way to shut someone uneducated up is to give them a ridiculous answer they have no reason to deny.

You realize that lasted for hundreds of years, right, Jake?

It never stopped. The anthropologists basically created their own sect.

So if you disagree with that stance, why stand up for it now? :^)

Because the dogma of Darwinism is just that, a dogma. It's not science.

It's a presumption.

It's fairly well proven.

A dogma with a rational approach, a lot of which simply adopted the concept of skepticism.

With what? Spontaneous generation?

Or rather the darwinian theory of evolution.

A good amount of it has also been disproven, so it isn't taken as gospel like Christianity likes to do.

I agree with @Lios
``Christians are more tolerant of atheists, because they failed to suppress the rebellion, because they wanted to be more subjugative by passive law, rather than oppressive force.
See Islam``

That's the key with the sciences, they're malleable, they change. Science is always open to new information. Dogma is not. Religion is not.