If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creation–mine anyway. I was afraid to question the Bible or anything in it, and when I did, that’s when I became involved with PFLAG and realized that my son was a perfectly normal human being and there was nothing for God to heal because Bobby was perfect just the way he was. Mary Griffith
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To live without the need for religion, would mean our world would be a very different place. If there had never been religious conflict, there would have been no public schools to educate us. There would have been no women’s rights, no freedom for slaves or the abolition of slavery. Women would still be considered inferior and limited in what they could do.

Science and medicine would not be improving at the rate that it is today. And, our understanding of the origins of life would also differ greatly.

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