Skynheilige vent!

-Cecco d'Ascoli was burnt alive by the church in 1327 for daring to suggest that men may live on the other side of the world.

-The philosopher and dreamer Bruno was burnt at the stake by Rome in 1600 for daring to suggest that the earth goes round the sun.

-Galileo Galilei: This great human thinker was imprisoned, threatened with torture, and forced to recant his beliefs because they disagreed with Christian superstitions. Was placed under house arrest for the last nine years of his life.

-The thinker and writer Campanella was tortured for subscribing to the Copernican theory. The idea that the earth goes round the sun was explicitly prohibited in the church's Index of banned books in 1616 under Paul V, again in 1664 under Alexander VII and again in 1761 under Benedict XIV. Unbelievably, the Copernican theory remained on the Index until 1835. Apparently, though, the church now believes that the earth may in fact go round the sun.

-In 1844, Darwin first wrote down his discovery that humans arose from other animals by a natural process. The obvious consequences are (a) that humans are physical things, the soul is mythology, and there is no afterlife, and (b) therefore our destiny is to discover how the brain works, and then to become immortal on earth. This discovery, perhaps the greatest ever in the history of humanity, is still opposed or watered-down by ignorant churches of every creed today.

-For almost all of the history of Christianity, the church preached that the earth was less than 10,000 years old.Apparently, though, the church now believes this is completely wrong. Yet now many think the world is only 5000 years old.
was burnt alive in 1619 for daring to suggest that man has risen instead of fallen.

-Isaac La Peyrere was imprisoned, and his book burned, for claiming in 1655 that humanity must be older than Genesis implies.

-The pioneer naturalist Buffon was humiliated by the Church in the 18th century, and forced to declare "that I had no intention to contradict the text of Scripture".

-Lucilio Vanini was burnt alive in 1619 for daring to suggest that man has risen instead of fallen.

Doesn't look like all that "revealing" biblical science helped these poor souls one bit in their arguments.

And that's all folks! Back to my Retraite de Silence.