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Originally Posted by EonBlue
You said "get the church to stop telling people condoms come from Satan". I guess I took that to mean christians. Religion is only really regressive when religious doctrine forms the basis for government policy. That hasn't happened in the west for centuries. And you don't need religion to experience regression. Political ideologies can be equally regressive - North Korea for example.
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Church/Temple/Mosque... same difference.
Organized Religion is extremely regressive whether it officially infects government or not. Take a look at any textbook questioning the notion of evolution or suggesting 'intelligent design' has a scientific basis. That's in a country with a Constitutional separation between Church and State (by church I mean church/temple/mosque etc so as not to confuse you). The key difference between Religion and Science is that Science is real...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ty33v7UYYbw