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Originally Posted by Waarnemer
Its a question of perception I guess, It was British Empiricism that brought criticism on religion by declaring only the independently thinking man has no need for religious motives to act morally, and its the non independently thinking that necessarily needs religion to act so called ethically.
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Since I'm not religious, I'd be willing to believe what you say --and I even can accept it in the individual level. But when we talk about big numbers, societies, civilizations, I think religion is an essential factor. As I said, I reached that conclussion reading History, it's not based in any religious prejudice.
Why is the Islamic civilization a menace to us? Because they are strongly religious, and that makes them powerful as a group. If they weren't religious, they wouldn't be more than one of the many third world cultures in this planet, as menacing to us as australian aboriginals.
Applying this to our case, I believe that much of our greatness as a civilization is based in our common religion: Christianism. Without Christianism we would have been turkified hundreds of years ago.