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Today (December 16th) is the anniversary of the invention of the transistor. The transistor is one of the most important invention of the 20th Century. Transistors are part of nearly all electronic devices, including computers, cell phones, radio and television. Most of humanity has been touched by the transistor.

What did religion (any religion) invent in the 20th Century? Or the 19th? Or the 18th… or ever? Religion is valued because it is the anti-invention. Religion has tradition. Religion comes from an eternal God. Sometimes religious people admit change, but only in the form of revelation – which comes from an eternal God, so it isn’t really change at all. Nothing new comes from religion. Religion resists invention until it sees a means to profit from it, at which time a convenient revelation occurs and the invention is seen as part of God’s eternal non-invented plan.

If a person or a society have all the answers, and if all the answers they have are the right answers, and if there are no other people or societies around to disrupt things in any way, and if there are no changes in the world uncontrolled by people, then there is no need for invention. But on my planet, we need invention to survive much less thrive. Religion is the enemy of invention. If you are reading this on a computer screen, some part of you must be in agreement with me.