The Protestant Reformation and the Rise of Modern Science

Presbyterians and Baptists vs. Pagans, Catholics and Atheists. Who has done more good?

How much good have atheists, pagans, and Catholics done for the world versus what Orthodox Presbyterians and orthodox Baptists have done?

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[TheGhostFromPlanetX]

"The protestant reformation may have planted the seeds of atheism that would later bear fruit". -Alister McGrath / The Twilight of Atheism

[rugbyboy198127]

@s0cialc0nstruct if you're such a specialist then you'd know that those modern eugenics ideas actually originated in the united states at the end of a long line of bigotry beginning with the dehumanizing of africans and justification of slavery; which my friend began in europe under the catholic church and was endorsed by the catholic church, the catholic church has always been after jews, they destroyed all the marvels of the moors in islamic spain and had the dreadful inquisition, most evil!?!

[s0cialc0nstruct]

@rugbyboy198127 I'm a specialist intellectual history. Hitler was not a Catholic. The technical and bureaucratic thinking behind the execution of the holocuast, not to mention the acompanying theories of eugenics, are well theorised development of a 'protestant' and 'enlightenment' strand in western thought. This is, however, getting away from the point. There are atrocities on all sides of human history and to align one groupin with 'evil' is not only perpetuate this weakness.

[rugbyboy198127]

@s0cialc0nstruct are you joking mate? hitler was raised and continued to be a roman catholic, they try and pass him off as an athiest, but he was roman catholic and he bought the silence of the vatican for many years, this is well documented, infact they didn't even refute him or acknowledge the holocaust was happening until 1945, don't forget which side italy was on in the second world war even if the vatican claimed it stayed 'neutral' learn some history mate-not the propaganda you've learned!

[s0cialc0nstruct]

@rugbyboy198127 I can't abide your ignorance. I don't know which is more distrubing about your comment, it's stupidity or the implicit flavour nationalism. I don't think you can claim that northern Europe has any superiority over Catholic history. Pariticularly if you're going to cite genocide...Germany + concentration camps mean anything to you? That was the so called triumph of creeping protestant enlightenment 'rationality'.

[s0cialc0nstruct]

@rugbyboy198127 I can't abide your ignorance. I don't know which is more distrubing about your comment, it's stupidity or the implicit flavour nationalism. I don't think you can claim that northern Europe has any superiority over Catholic history. Pariticularly if you're going to cite genocide...Germany + concentration camps mean anything to you? That was the so called triumph of creeping protestant enlightenment 'rationality'.

[rugbyboy198127]

shouldn't be called protestant reformation, should be called northern european revolution... it is us the northern european with our intelligence and instinct for nature and freedom which stopped the creeping evil of catholic christianity, which opressed science, philosophy and theism for centuries,not to mention the mass murder and genocide of countless european peoples-catholics can sod off-oh and how i mean that, i'm atheist,into paganism and while i abide protestants i cant abide catholicism

[Adastra14]

@GhostICM

yeah you with me as well :P

[beingther]

@wowplayer6541011 ya maby sounds good. but hell is not out there the spirit realm is in you