>>10594
Hinduism is too diverse to be put in a single category IMO.
Hinduism is much more diverse than all Abrahamic religions together
>>10603
>Then again they did have basically a monopoly on western education for almost 1000 years
yep. as a former catholic living in a catholic region, the catholic population on average is more stupid than even other kinds of christian denominations. just compare catholic countries against protestant ones.
catholics produced most of the few good medieval thinkers because of some anthropic reason of the sorts: the catholic church dominated pretty much all of Europe and they conquered a huge chunk of the Americas. It is to be expected that western intellectuals prior to reformation and the enlightenment emerged from a catholic background. the catholic priesthood is still so powerful and influential nowadays that they can still manage to produce good scientists like Mendel and Lamettre, even though demographically catholic countries are for the most part unadvanced and poor-ish.
catholic thinking is not so prevalent on today's world though.
>>10618
yes. I have a twofold opinion on the emergence of protestantism in latin amerca though. in one hand I think diversification will lead to a more tolerant and peaceful society, and in turn it opens the doors for skeptics and nonbelievers.
>and you don't have to be celibate
that's part of the show put by catholics. do you think their masses would be so appealing to the ignorant if they weren't performed by virgins who claim they can turn crackers into the body of god and make the flocks eat it?