(May 8, 2022 at 8:45 pm)Fireball Wrote:(May 8, 2022 at 2:13 pm)h311inac311 Wrote: Well it is the most read, widely distributed and sold book of all time. But I'm sure you'll just chalk that up to some form of highly contagious and delusional form of psychopathy, as atheists tend to do.
No, it has to do with the chokehold the RCC held on nearly everything back in those days, preying on the intentionally uneducated populace for fun and profit.
All the intellectuals of the day supported Roman Catholicism; that's why the Church behaved the way it did. The Church, then and now, follows the lead of its (her) theologians.