re: This freeze briarcrest thing is BS

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Advance education: Teaching things that are incorrect about the history of earth and where life came from is not "advancing education".

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Ok, well let's accept your broad characterization as true.

What about being the foundation for a host of elite universities? What about centuries of spreading western-style educational framework through missionary work? What about being a primary mover in manuscript culture?

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Historical Record Keeping; Hiatorical records were kept long before religious doctrines were written down. Add that to the fact that religious historical records are generally complete fabrications, I'd say we could do just fine without it.

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Oh, I see, you're not being a sarcastic contrarian, you're just outright stupid. Just to avoid any confusion on your part, I was clued in to your stupidity by:

"the fact that religious historical records are generally complete fabrications."

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Art: while religion has been the subject of much art, art still exists without religion. After all, Neanderthals were making art on the walls of caves and they had no real religious beliefs.

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"No worries everyone, if we take away 60 or 70% of the world's great art, music, etc., it's cool because we've still got some left"

-you

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Religion can never admit it was wrong.

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This isn't even true for faiths most people find absurd (LDS, for example).