RE: A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the forum....
June 18, 2019 at 11:41 pm
(This post was last modified: June 18, 2019 at 11:43 pm by Fake Messiah.)
While few monks here and there made few discoveries we can safely say that Christianity is against freethinking and ultimately science.
I mean many theologians from Aquinas on advocated the killing of heretics, hardly an endorsement of freethinking. So this is not just against freethinking but Christians actually disrupted freethinking for centuries.
Martin Luther was famous for his attacks on reason. Besides persecuting Galileo and Giordano Bruno for their heresies, some of which involved science, and burning Bruno alive, the Catholic Church burned books and maintained infamous Index Librorum Prohibitorum, which for four centuries protected its flock from thinking. That included science, for the list included works by Kepler, Francis Bacon, Erasmus Darwin, Copernicus, and Galileo.
So please answer me this: Why would an institution that promoted science make it a sin to read books by scientists?
And why would an institution in favor of free inquiry ban philosophy books by Pascal, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Hume?
Why did they destroy so many ancient books? A lot of times they erased them to write Bible on them.
Also Catholic Church famously condemned the University of Paris in 1277 for teaching 219 philosophical, theological, and scientific "errors."
I mean many theologians from Aquinas on advocated the killing of heretics, hardly an endorsement of freethinking. So this is not just against freethinking but Christians actually disrupted freethinking for centuries.
Martin Luther was famous for his attacks on reason. Besides persecuting Galileo and Giordano Bruno for their heresies, some of which involved science, and burning Bruno alive, the Catholic Church burned books and maintained infamous Index Librorum Prohibitorum, which for four centuries protected its flock from thinking. That included science, for the list included works by Kepler, Francis Bacon, Erasmus Darwin, Copernicus, and Galileo.
So please answer me this: Why would an institution that promoted science make it a sin to read books by scientists?
And why would an institution in favor of free inquiry ban philosophy books by Pascal, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Hume?
Why did they destroy so many ancient books? A lot of times they erased them to write Bible on them.
Also Catholic Church famously condemned the University of Paris in 1277 for teaching 219 philosophical, theological, and scientific "errors."
