Re: Constructed Religions

Terrence Donnelly wrote:
> I don't think this is a given.  I've heard the argument that it was
> the Judeo-Christian world-view that fostered early scientific
> inquiry: by positing a world created by a logical Mind, people were
> encouraged to seek to understand the purposes of that Mind.
Indeed, most early Scientists saw their inquiries as a form of worship.
Know the Creation, Know the Creator.  Also, religions like Christianity
were influential in the early study of languages.  The Greeks and the
Romans couldn't've cared less about "barbarian" tongues, but the
Christians, commanded to "make disciples of all nations", had to first
translate the Word, and so they had to study other langauges.  *Many*
languages are known only thru missionaries' studies of them.