Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-112.207.225.41-20160709120906/@comment-8881468-20170116205354

"Also, do not think that people of Europe emerged from dark ages without the help of religion."

--> sorry man, but what the actual fuck?

If one thing was responsible for the "dark middle ages", it was catholicism. What we generally understand as renaissance is actually the decision to not give a crap about religion because your senses/what you can recognize and realize widely put the teaching of the church ad absurdum. Especially concerning the bans on doing research or on knowledge that was knowledge in opposition to chruch teachings, like f.e. the world being round.

remember people actually being killed beause they  used 3 instead of 2 fingers o make the mark of the cross? Did you know what the fther of modern medicine (Ali Ibn Sina) had to go on trial becaus his mother was jewish? Did you know about the bloody outcomes because of disagreements over who chooses bishops? What about the Catahrans? Hey, ever heard about the Hussites?

How about the Hugenots?Henry VI, 30 years war?

Religion is there to recognize groups and use em.