[pharmamom]

The result has been war and atrocity on an unprecendented scale, in the 20th century alone those states murdered 200 million of their own citizens.

You assert fact A and then fact B and suppose causation. The 19th and 20th centuries saw war and atrocity on an unprecedented scale because our weapons got better, not because we got worse. The Roman church has perpetrated quite a few of its own atrocities and on a fairly large scale for the times...perhaps the capacity to sin lies equally in all of us?

[ScholarWarrior]

Your are wasting your breath with kjvail.
He/she rejects the Renaissance, the Enlightment and the Industrial Revolution.

[CouncilofTrent]

Don't blame the Church to make your argument. Stalin sent millions to die in gulags, yet, it didnt involve the evolution of weapons.

[kjvail]

I gave you the short version, if one does his or her research it becomes causation becomes plain.