Is religion the destroyer of civilization?

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The Roman empire declined after converting to Christianity.
The Mayan culture vanished after becoming religious warriors.
The European cultures went into the "Dark Ages" after the Inquisition.
The Arab world was once an intellectual and science leader before Islam. Now they are in their own religious dark age. Is this how modern civilization will end?
 
No, people are.

It is the people of the religion that choose to be destructive. Without all the evil people, and the corruption, the religion itself would be harmless.

You know that old saying... Guns don't kill people, people kill people.
 
You've certainly got a unique interpretation of history, and as I minored in that subject, I'm pretty certain that most of the professionals historians dissent from your rather extremist position.
 
Rome had religion before that

Mayan decline probably had little to do with that

Europe went into the dark ages because Rome fell to the nomads and it lost any central authority, power, or advanced civilization it had. There was little change in non-West Roman parts of Europe. They were already very much uncivilized.

The Arab World was also an intellectual and scientific center for centuries after Islam.

But yes, religion has been bad for civilization, due to limitations on how human you can be, it being the opium of the people, religious persecution (inquisition, Turkish Armenian Christian Genocide, etc.)
 
Religion is but the Son of God is not a destroyer of civilization. Jesus is the savior of civilization. He will come back and rule as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
 
No, man and his aspirations are enough. Religion is just an excuse.
There are many lost cultures both real and mythical that vanished without religion being the driving cause.

Persian
Babylonian
Meads
Aztec
Anasazi
Hittite

the list goes on.
 
Ever watch South Park? There's a episode where atheism is declared worldwide, and religion no longer exists. Cartman (the fat kid) travels to the future, and several atheist factions are fighting each other because of their different scientific beliefs. People will still be different from one another regardless of the absence of religion, and usually, as history has taught us, blood will be spilled over those very differences.

I agree. Religious wars, and wars being waged over beliefs, are grim and ignorant. But until we learn to accept those beliefs (regardless of how ridiculous and false they are) can we live in peace.
"Peace cannot be achieved by force. It can only be achieved by understanding," ~Albert Einstein
Later in the episode, the future gives up on all the "isms" and humanity is still at war. (this time over land)

Technology will also perish, like you said. I cant believe people who deny science.

Humanity wont die from a religious war. Humanity (Or at least civilization) will perish from the next ice age (cause by global warming, our fault, and there are still those who deny it), which people who were convinced that a certain character named "jesus" would not allow such a thing to happen.

But I'm pretty positive blood will be spilled until that time from religious wars. War shows that humanity is imperfect, along with this world. My anti-war views don't seem to change a thing. Humanity cant come up with a better way to solve problems.
 
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