RE: Christianity's Valuable Contributions to Humanity: An Examination of Militant Atheism
June 22, 2023 at 9:54 am
For starters, Copernicus's book was on Index Librorum Prohibitorum which meant, as Encyclopedia Britannica explains:
Many books deemed heretical or threatening to the faith were destroyed or hidden as a result of the Index and the accompanying inquisitions, and hundreds of printers took flight to Switzerland and Germany.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Index-L...ohibitorum
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Many books deemed heretical or threatening to the faith were destroyed or hidden as a result of the Index and the accompanying inquisitions, and hundreds of printers took flight to Switzerland and Germany.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Index-L...ohibitorum
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
