duck55223 said
Can I have the mechanical reaper first? That way when the factories come along not everyone is focused on being a farmer.And while this may seem a bit mean im gonna put it down to a lack of religion, it was the dark ages that slowed human development and those ages were fueled by religion.
Churches could also be credited with the beginning of public education, honestly, I don't think much would change aside from the lack of churches. Absence of religion would most likely only increase our technological development now, as we have begun to come across theories that completely disprove religion and thus an "us vs. them" mentality has formed. Obviously, without religion we would be more advanced due to the absence of doctrine, but not significant enough to throw us a century forward. The Dark Ages honestly didn't make that much of a difference, the technology at the time means that very few discoveries have been made, as scientific development is exponential. Of course, without doctrine we would have learned far more about our surroundings, and have many technologies that were theoretical in the 1700's, but nothing more. Instead, I would put it down as an alternate universe quirk, maybe the humans here are significantly more willing to work together, or perhaps one person existed who invented steam power earlier than the date it occurred in our own universe.
Also, I doubt that there is no religion here, it probably just hasn't been shown by anyone yet. I believe I somewhat implied the existence of multiple different belief systems coexisting in my nation, so perhaps the religions here have relaxed doctrines compared to those in our own universe. Besides, without religion we could have no holy wars, and someone will undoubtedly want to have one at some point. Besides preventing offense, marking it down to tolerant religions is more plausible than having no religion, as it is somewhat of a universal thing in cultural development. Caveman looks at ground, wonders how ground got there. Caveman looks at shy, sees stars. Caveman is afraid, Caveman wants someone to keep him safe. Caveman decides the stars made ground, and are watching over him, and thus begins religion. Obviously that is only how most religions begin, if you are religions do not take that as an attack on your religion, it is just how most begin. I'm not naming anything so that you can view that as something that happened to start the religions you do not subscribe to. If you hold strong beliefs, do not react to any comments here regarding those beliefs and their validity, as I do not want to see this whole thing torn apart by a flame war. Those are bad. Apologies to anyone who does not share my views and/or finds them impossible due to their own beliefs, I do not mean to offend.
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