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Originally Posted by Charlatan
I am not so sure I believe the first part of your statement... but given the fact that we do not have a culture that hasn't felt the influence of religion, we will never know.
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Maybe one day we find an alien planet infested by little green Richard Dawkins' and we can put that to the test.
Still, being an atheist, I believe that most of everything in religion has it's Genesis in either human nature or some other human reason. When the Bible and Qu'ran damn homosexuality, it's because homosexuality makes a lot of people uncomfortable. When the Torah says not to eat pork, it's because swine are considered unclean and it's natural to not want to eat unclean food. If man wanted to subjugate women, then they were going to do it...Bible or not. If the Bible were written today, it would read a lot differently. Actually, one can see clear differences between the OT and NT, which were separated by many years and attitudes.