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Originally Posted by SameOldStory
No, it apperars that the majoity agrees that most hospitals and centers of education are founded in, or created by, religions. I'm only going by the links provided by the majority.
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We're not denying that. We were expanding on nguirado's contention that they were developed by the Christian religion in particular.
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Originally Posted by nguirado
Hospitals and universities are Church inventions. There were libraries, of course, but no school with a comprehensive curriculum. There wasn't organized care for the poor either.
Education for more than the very rich is a Christian invention as well.
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I do think though that as civilisations grew in power they would have developed these things regardless of religion. Religion, though, has historically been one of our main tools for gathering wealth and mobilising the workforce.
Graham