Bill Maher - Religulous

[Grudge]

The point being, religion was an occational comparatively beneficial influence, at least up until the adoption of neat things like democracy, humanism and scientific method.

But just because it was sometimes beneficial in an iron-age or medieval society, doesn't mean that it is beneficial in our modern society today.

[plained]

its seemed to work very well 4 the little house on the praire!

[R00k]

That said; no, Rook, but that's because I'm not a Christian.

The distinction I'm trying to make here is between literal belief in everything that's in the bible, and all the other things that make it worthwhile.

A person does not need to actually believe the bible (or other holy books) in order for it to be beneficial in the same way that it always has.

We could live our lives according to Shakespeare and Aesop's fables, and doing that may very well prove beneficial to society. But that doesn't mean we would need to believe that the events in them actually happened.

[Hannibal]

Uh...no. I was agreeing with you and expanding the point to why evolution is still "debated".

Chill...none of it was directed at you.

Oh. The direct quote gave me the wrong impression then. np