Ultimately, the tolerance and acceptance of different ideologies and cultures and the encouragement of free thought created a sense of unity that was much more appealing compared to the restraints of the Roman Catholic Church in Western Europe which pushed outsiders to conform, and free thought to be repressed for Church theology, thus allowing the Islamic world to develop into the dominant group of the time. ...

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Religion is consequently best understood neither as the result of supernatural revelation , nor as an illusion or set of mistaken ideas (which might be the viewpoint of a skeptical outsider who does not accept the religious beliefs). ...

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