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Do you have a point?
You're not saying anything remotely close to a rebuttal
Religion is absurd, the very idea of an omnipotent god is a logical fallacy a la the omnipotence paradox, and it doesn't add anything to humanity
All it does is divide people
I did.
-You
My rebuttal is this: Most of the people who built modern civilization were religious one way or another, and the proposition that someone like, say, Isaac Newton was incapable of asking questions is frankly ridiculous. The very ideals of inquiry you're espousing now were thought up and developed by Christians.
I mean I obviously disagree, but either way that is a completely different point than the one you made previously and I responded to.
Blasphemy was a crime in England during Newton’s time. He was literally forbidden from asking questions.
If you think blasphemy laws prevented Renaissance and Enlightenment Europeans from questioning Christianity then... uh... yeah.
So if we banned religion and then bragged about how all the greatest people of our time are atheists, you’d be ok with that so long as a few people keep their faith anyway?
If I then tried to imply all atheists are dumb and only enlightened religious people are smart, yes "all the greatest people of our time are atheists" would be a great rebuttal in that situation. I never said that, though, so that's a moot point.