Originally Posted by mikesinner

How do you know it hasn't held us back. I see way more evidence that it has destroyed knowledge throughout the years.

Christian and Catholics have destroyed thousands of books and writing over the years because it conflicted with their teachings and in many cases may have shown their fraud.

Muslims have done the same. So many libraries have been burned it's insane. More than half of all the great Greek literature of antiquity was burned and lost to us. We have references to books and writings but we don't have those books because insane religious people burned them because they didn't agree with their bible or Qur'an. We call this period in history the dark ages. If atheism would have been allowed to flourish as it was beginning to do during the height of ancient Greece we would probably be several hundred more years advanced than we are now. At one point in Greece was over %10 atheist and there were some great atheist and deist philosophers.