The scientific process is the only way that we can reach the verifiable, objective truth.
Religion on the other hand is very dehumanising. It reduces you to infantile, slavish behaviour. It means you live your life according to a myth. It means you discriminate against those who do not follow the same myth. It causes you to waste this life in preparation for an eternal life that will never happen.
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The Pale Horseman say: No. People can use science in a dehumanizing way, but science by itself is not dehumanizing.
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say: No
It helps us be more humane
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Colin say: No.
Perhaps you'd care to name something that has been taken away in the name of science? Or there again, maybe you won't. Or can't. (Unless you think that polio was a Good Thing.)
Aren't you afraid that everything you care about might (be) taken away in the name of religion?
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Rowan say: No. Denmark is the happiest country in the world. If democratic socialism is done in a secular, fair, decent way, not full of corruption and lies and propaganda, the tools of the real devil, selfish men, then it works, everyone has what they need and there is practically no crime, no homeless, no gun deaths, the prostitutes aren't doing it out of necessity,
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Freethinking Liberal say: Facts (science) liberate
Religion dehumanizes by putting people in boxes then persecuting them if they do not conform
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numbnuts222 say: It's advances in medicine have saved my life more than once. Without science I would be dead
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Atheist Anthony say: 100 years ago if you broke your arm there was a good chanced you'd get gangrene and die.
Now you don't.
What exactly has science taken away?
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