“Time for another great American history lesson from American Minute. “
Too bad their works were banned by the churches setting science Back 200 years.
Your comment is an over-simplified and over-used attack: lazy and disingenuous.
There were many advancements in the arts and sciences - more so than the impediments - made precisely because of the influence of Biblical Christianity. Literacy became almost one hundred percent in places like Ireland.
I have researched the whole Galileo trope. He was an egotistical jackass, envious of his contemporaries, who helped create the impasse. Neither side was entirely blameless.
I am not a Catholic, and never have been. I just prefer the whole truth, not biased sophistry.
Another historically ignorant jackass brays.
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