User blog comment:Wijata Mateusz/World without Religions/@comment-1310192-20120507220931

Agh, how implausible is that...

Well, I'd guess in the case it didn't happen, civilization could occur, only it'd take a while for them to unify. And instead of church dominating, it'd be secularist leaders who lead the development of culture in a Medici way-trying to show off their money and power with cultural and patronage of the arts.

The balance between state and church would obviously not exist, leading to a more secular society.

So in the very unlikely case it happened, it would take a long time to start civilisation, but when it was started it would be far less conflictive.

This comes from a militant agnostic-atheist, so I'm sorry for the bias. :P