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Christianity Acted As A Catalyst And Advanced Technology During The Medieval Ages Through Mechanical Torture Devices.
The church always had ingenious and innovative ways to instill terror and fear into the populace. A lot of designs and engineering techniques were mastered during the creation of torture contraptions which were used on heretics and criminals.
 verum  17 Oct 2009 10:17
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The statement is true only in so far as any system of power serves as a catalyst for whatever weapons and implements are created during that reign of power. You could just as easily say US democracy was a catalyst for advancing weapons of mass destruction.
 
 Grenache  17 Oct 2009 15:28
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 The U.S was absolutely a catalyst for advancing WMD's.
by  verum
 17 Oct 2009 20:57
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The only thing religion did to advance anything was pay for it by fleecing the public for money.

The catholic cult and later Martin Luther's protestants only protected scientific advancements as a way to thumb their noses at each other. The christians were always against Gallileo, Copernicus, Darwin and many other scientific advancements that threatened their control of society, not to mention the christians burning and destroying of libraries throughout moorish (islamic) Spain.
 
 K9  17 Oct 2009 10:39
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 Out of context. I definitely don't disagree with anything you are stating but its pretty much irrelevant. Even though Christians were vigorously against most forms of science and technology, they were not against the development of torture devices which to a degree in itself possessed technological aspects. The torture devices were some of the most advanced pieces of machinery a town had to offer.The designs and the ways these devices worked were later replicated in other machines.
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 17 Oct 2009 11:11
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