Hello, I was having a discussion on twitter about the historic impact Religion had on society, I was arguing(without success) that it had many uses in history, not necessarily that we would be worse off without it, but that it benefited the human race in quite a few ways.
What do you think? are the many practical uses to religion in history, what are they? do they effect us today? would we have been better off without it?
My opinion is that there are many sciences and practical uses that come from Religion, such as the Ancient Greek Astrologersmapping the sky, which probably wouldn't have happened as quickly were it not for religion.
I also think that religion as a whole is worth the genocides, wars and witch hunts that sprouted from it, because of the sciences and curiosity that it drove.
I ask this question to see what Hubski thinks, also to hopefully get my friends from twitter to join Hubski(I'll make sure to clean up after them :) as twitter is a rubbish platform for this kind of discussion, and they'd love it here.