What Has Religion Done in 2011?

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Would someone please post a list of Religious Achievements of 2011 to provide balance to the list of Scientific Achievements of 2011?

Thank you.

-Fnord-

Inflating Tim Tebow's ego?

I look forward to being enlightened

I hope you're not disappointed ... again ...

Well most people are going Atheist this year than any other religion there is to date, because Religion could make the world population decline.

Atheism in of itself has done diddly squat
It's becoming the worship of irreligion

jo fnord religion and science aren't two competing things its not like the believe in a god excludes you from believing scientific findings vice versa believing that we can know things scientifecaly doesn't exclude you from believing we can not know some things scientificaly

All I'm asking is that people shotcan the BS and post a valid list of things that the "Body of Religion" has accomplished over the past year in order to provide a "balance" to the list I posted of accomplishments by the "Body of Science" - that's all.

Can you do that?

Will you do that, please?

Absolutely...

Religion also has an advantage in that its douchebag zealots tend to eliminate themselves in explosions while atheism's douchebags just go on and on and on...

... and the "douchebags" of science keep making new discoveries and advancing our understanding of reality.

Not the point. Though on the other hand, many theists do seem to have the attitude that they are competing things. For example, how can one reasonably demand that the "controversy" between science and theistic creationism be taught, thereby giving the implication that they are in fact, competing theories of equal weight (obviously this is not the case); while simultaneously when asked what religion has done as a response to [Fnord's own] science thread, claim they are not competing theories and thus implying the thread question is fallacious?



Of course it has done nothing. It is not a monolithic institution or any real organization. Did Atheists do anything, probably. Religious people have probably done useful things as well. Irrelevant in any case as the question is "what has religion done" compared to "what has science done", not "what has atheism done". That is diversionary at best



Why can nobody actually answer what religion has done, and instead deflect the discussion towards a "religion vs atheism" debate which is not even relevant to the discussion?

well,

1. Fred Phelps has successfully used religion to restrict protests at funerals. Against his own will of course.

2. Naw, that's about all I have... srry.

Mayan calender disproven, all o got

You might want to look up the word douchebag...

On topic-- I have personally witnessed the "non-douchebags" of religion help coordinate efforts to feed, shelter and educate the less fortunate in my local community. They did it with the help of some "non-douchebag" atheists, some sciency types, some dirty hippies and other random folk.* I think they should all get at least partial credit.

PS

Religious nut Harold Camping's repeated end of the world predictions created entrepreneurial opportunities for those in the "after-the-rapture" pet care industry...


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*I'm pretty sure no libertarians or objectivists helped.

According to the list, researchers at Notre Dame University invented a paint that acts as a superconductor. Notre Dame is a Catholic school.

Oh, and your list failed to mention the genetically modified super flu that many consider to be so dangerous there is debate as to whether or not the researchers should reveal how it was created. Thanks a lot, science.

And since when were libertarians against voluntarily helping others?