"To address those last two points specifically, quality of life & comfort (which seem like pretty much the same thing to me), I would argue that general quality of life for nation-sized populations has been mostly determined by scientific discovery and corresponding industrial technology & production progress. Since religious orthodoxies have been historically opposed to scientific discovery, I just can't buy your statement that Christianity is directly responsible for current quality of life."
AtomicLabMonkey, if we look back to Genesis.
1.) Who gave us the ability to think and reason?
2.) Isn't the scientific process a process of thinking?
3.) Don't we have the freedom to think and make choices?
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