re: #250 c6gunner

That’s true enough, religion did guide our cultural development. I never suggested otherwise. I’m simply rejecting the idea that religion had a positive role which could not have been filled in a secular world.

My response would be that it could have been filled by a secular culture. However, since it hasn’t that really cannot be determined at this point. Religion could be seen as a process that led to secularism most particularly if you look at it from a cultural perspective. Would there have been secularism without religions? Did early creationist ideas evolve into a greater curiosity for the sciences and later evolution?