>no one said religion didn't spark art and philosophy

No, people like you just ignore the positive contributions religion has had because it makes you uncomfortable to admit that there is more to religion than fairy tales and manipulation. It's much easier to make the world black and white...you know like a zealot.

>and as far as the philosophy, how far does it go before it
>breaks right back down to its roots of fearful & rich men

You could say the same shit about a bunch aspects of civilization. If your threshold for something being of no worth to humanity is it being used by the rich and powerful to control society you aren't going to be left with much.

We start wars for a variety of reason, and most of them aren't also connected to amazing advancements in architecture and scholarship.



>hitler , the so called 'atheist's sparked a lot of art &
>religion as well, and this takes your argument where again


He sparked as much as the Abrahamic religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc? He's responsible for changing European music, architecture, and scholarship? Really? Man shut the entire fuck up. That was the dumbest fucking reach of all time. Once again, it must be real fun to not have to pay attention to context since you see the world in such simple terms.