Quote Originally Posted by khronik
Say what you will about Christianity, but the relative peace it brought to Europe allowed the Industrial Revolution to take root.

Anyway, I'm personally thrilled to be living during an age where we're right on the cusp of all these breakthroughs but we aren't quite there yet.
if there wasn't religion many conflicts wouldn't have started in the first place.
and if there was conflict, we wouldn't have needed some theists to sort it out. Sensible logical people would have done so.