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Originally Posted by nguirado
Let me demonstrate the difficulty:
You can't talk about history without talking about religion- a lot. Sorry. If you mention it, you have to talk about its effect on society (this doesn't have to do with a supreme being- I reject your analysis).
Now, you can talk about it in a positive way or a negative way. You can mention the hospitals, universities, the increase in dignity for slaves and women (who were nothing in pagan Europe), the preservation of antiquity, "peace of God," etc. or you can talk about the Crusades (which are much more complicated, as I've mentioned).
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If you are talking about consequences of something you should mention the consequences you have scientific support for. (And some of the things you mention there is no support for if you mean consequence that should not have happened otherwise if religion had not existed.).