> It would even fairer to say that that region had advanced civilization, huge riches, stable organization, culture (music, poetry, literature), science (math,

> It would even fairer to say that that region had advanced civilization, huge riches, stable organization, culture (music, poetry, literature), science (math, chemistry, engineering), and so on Religion hampered all this progress still. Those things would have happened far quicker without religion dragging humanity down.