DoesChristianity restricted our scientific understanding of things?

But who says that rome was the only donator to the scientific world???

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Yes, … But… I was reading about the history of the catholic church and there are undeniable proofs that they were not following the principles of christianity.(and some still dont) they infact persecuted and killed the true christians who held up the principles of the Bible.

there are also many christian scientist in the world so christianity and science can co exist.

as I christian I disagree with the parts of science that deny God as creator and other fundamental christian principles.

jonathan, I know that actually learning history is difficult, because you learn all about nasty things the churches have done through time, but try to open a book. this was the period of the roman empire. it was not just about rome itself. the romans had conquered a large part of the world. and you’re right, scientific thinking did continue. in non-christian parts. that’s not the point. try and follow ok? the point is not whether other parts of the world were able to continue with their exploration, it was how much Christianity took away by putting a bunch of people, as toadaly put it, into a deep freeze. yes, we’ve learned all that since then, but we could have had a lot more by now. let me put it in terms you may understand. over the last few decades the U.S. has contributed a lot to the world. No, they didnt do it on their own, and other places had contributions as well, but the U.S. helped to globalize a lot of things. Now, imagine if the U.S. had been banned from any scientific progress since 1950 by the christians, (just look at Bush and the last 8 years). Yes, things would have continued. But it would have seriously restricted many advances. I know the church teaches unquestioning obedience (like omg, they cant have done anything bad), but seriously, just like you learn at a certain point that your parents are people, they make mistakes, you kinda have to grow up and realize that churches made horrible decisions at many points in their histories.

No it hasn’t at all!Infact we’re now exploring things that no one had ever thought in those times!!

If we started exploring earlier though, we would have thought of those things that they didn’t think of back then earlier and we’d be thinking completely different things now.

Yes, undeniably. Christians systematically destroyed the scientific infrastructure of Rome …burning the libraries, killing the intellectuals, etc…and brought about the dark ages. 1000 years of scientific progress were lost to the ravages of early Christianity. If not for this 2000 year old doomsday cult, we probably would have explored the galaxy by now.

But we should be thankful to the advanced technology that let us to explore and if it weren’t for it,we would be in stone age!!!

@johnathan its not really about rome, it was how christianity shunned and rejected the scientific knowledge at the time, regardless of its geographic conception.