[quote=Platanus]
Sacred rituals, sacred rituals... hmmmpf, logic seems quite sacred to me, reason, some hypothetical stuff like human rights or even as imaginary as freedom. Religious institutions have been not only mocking but demolishing, destroying and tearing apart all that for millennia... and no one seems to have taken notice. So when is it our time to be offended? Oh, I have forgotten one little fact: they are the ones in power.Of course, it is never about sacred rituals, offence, respect or stuff like that. It is always about power.
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Except for the whole fact that it was mainly the church driving scientific advancement in the middle ages and a lot of what we know about history is directly because of the fact that monks and priests were among the most literate people in the world and recorded everything painstakingly by hand so knowledge wouldn't be lost to future generations. 

Oops.