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Originally Posted by jammies
Leaving the rest of your dubious claims aside, why exactly were the popes powerful enough to do any political and economic manipulation if not because of their religious authority? No God = no pope = no call to Crusade = no crusades.
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Some other means of control would have been used. Say nationalism for example. Look at the spread of communism.
How would wars for resourses and land been fought without religion as a motivator? How would excess population be eliminated that posed a threat to the ruling monarch if people began to starve moreso then they already were. Religion was the tool that was chosen to be most effective. That it was chosen doesn't make it inherantly bad no more then a gun murdurs people.
Now if God isn't real and religion is a human construct that effectively got our society to where it is now shouldn't survival of the fitest be aloud to prevail. If religion is an evil to humanity that doesn't help us survice shouldn't it slowly disappear as its need disappears or does religion ensure the propagation of humanity by increasing birth rates and therefore will ever expand its influence. And if religion does survive and help to propagate humanity then hasn't evolution showed religion to be a good thing?