"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."
James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments
20 June 1785
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_religions43.html
Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Jung-il, Pol Pot......
You’re going to tell me that science did better under them than Christianity?