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To: hellbender
Re 204: Despite their phenomenal wealth and power, churches somehow couldn't stop the march of science.

You, conviently, forget how much the Church pressed peasants to give of their meagre income to support Popes and Bishops and Priests in lavish lifestyles. You forget that Martin Luther created a major schism by objecting to this.

Ypu, conviently, forget the doctrine of the "Divine Right of Kings". The US Constitution rejected these church notions. There is no "divine right".

232 posted on 08/01/2006 9:27:35 PM PDT by thomaswest (One man's 'truth" is another man's heresy)
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To: thomaswest

These things have nothing whatever to do with your assertion that the church or Christianity suppressed science. The evidence from history is clear: the Christian West was more conducive to the rise of science than any other culture, and was also the culture in which free economies and liberal democracy arose. Just a coincidence, right? How come all these good things came out of the awful Christian world? Maybe "Santa Claus" brought science, and didn't get around to the other cultures? Maybe "Pixies" rained magic dust on Europe and nowhere else? Inquiring minds want to know.


241 posted on 08/01/2006 9:46:18 PM PDT by hellbender
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