Some of the greatest "thinkers" have been people who believe in God whether it be Sir Issac Newton, Thomas Aquinas, Nicolaus Copernicus, Gregor Mendel, Georges Lemaître, Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Marin Mersenne, Bernard Bolzano, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan, Robert Grosseteste, Christopher Clavius, Nicolas Steno, Athanasius Kircher, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, William of Ockham, Galileo Galilei,[1] René Descartes,[2] Nicolas Copernicus, Louis Pasteur,[3] Blaise Pascal, André-Marie Ampère, Gregor Mendel, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Pierre de Fermat, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Marin Mersenne, Alessandro Volta,[4] Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Pierre Duhem, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Roger Boscovich,[5] Pierre Gassendi, and Georgius Agricola.
List of Roman Catholic cleric?scientists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of Catholic scientists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I'm not sure that the brilliant minds of the hundreds and hundreds of people on these lists would agree that their minds have been..."enslaved"
In fact, I'm going to guess that these minds are significantly more intelligent than your mind.
What creates a suicide bomber is not "religion" but a desire for revenge and a desire for power and control.
Political systems have killed far more people than religion.
Mass killings under Communist regimes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Does that mean we should give up on government entirely?