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Originally Posted by nguirado
I will contend that it was ideals of the three Abrahamic religions that spawned the idea of selfless charity. Specifically, the view that all people, from the leper to the king, are equal in some fundamental way. This is one of the ideas that hasn't gone away with secularization.
Knowledge and science is more complex so I won't get into it now. It would certainly be a long slog.
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Well, I grew up in a town that had a Baptist Church, a Church of the Nazareene (probably misspelled), and one other. The closest Catholic Church was in another town. There were no other religions there. They could apply for a building permit, but it never happened. This was in the early 1950s.
So I grew up in an area where basically one religion, Southern Baptists, controlled most of the county, with able assistance of the local Klan chapter.
To learn anything factual about other religions, I had to move out of there.
So if you lived in a similar situation, I wouldn't be surprised at what you posted.
As for science and creation. I beleive in both, without feeling 'torn' as one is science, the other is faith. For me, neither infringes on the other.
Uhm, but I don't believe in a flat Earth, nor any claim that the Earth is the Center of the Universe.