(August 1, 2022 at 6:34 am)WinterHold Wrote: I remind you with the story of Galileo, who was accused of "heresy" for believing that earth was not actually the immovable centre of the universe:
Whenever somebody comes to the mainstream with a belief outside the box, the masses jump to stone him, burn him at the stake or simply calling him insane; mad; pariah.
Galileo didn't have problems with the scientific community but with anti-science religious zealots which is the opposite of Muhammad who is seen as wrong by the scientific community while supported by anti-science religious nutjobs.
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"
