<any of the major religions as having been a net positive to the development of human knowledge, potential or growth.
Such as...
Babylonian astrology - the court religion - as the origin of modern astrometrics?
The Islamic tradition of scholarship, providing translations into Arabic of classical Greek philosophers and proto-scientists - thereby preserving them through the so-called Dark Ages of Europe for rediscovery?
Copernicans finding a refuge in Protestant Europe?
The Jewish tradition of scholarship, providing so many of the physicists who, beginning with Einstein, have elucidated modern physics?
Religion and science are not mutually exclusive - they're not even innately incompatible. (Ask Steven Hawking...) The crux of the issue is not faith or religion but the arrogance of power and the extremes to which the powerful will go to remain so.
And some religions are all about human potential and growth: try Buddhism, especially Zen.
Fox
(whose grandfather's family name was Bowser, btw)
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