[dangerdoc]

On the other hand Monks took backward Europe and turned it into an industrial powerhouse leading to the Renascence. They were developing mechanical and hydraulic engineering discovering genetic inheretence principals and agricultural techniques that brought the west out of the vacuum of the Roman Empire to the economic and scientific dominance of the world. For the most part, the monks were discovering and documenting the world principally for economic reasons but laying the groundwork for the scientific age with the Catholic Church staying out of it.

[LeGrande]

Huh, what history of Europe have you been reading?

It was those pesky heretics that brought forward the renascence despite the efforts of the Church to suppress them.

But you are right in one aspect, when it became obvious that the Church couldn’t torture or kill all of the innovators they belated jumped on the band wagon and have been busily trying to rewrite history since then. Interestingly the one invention that the Church supported was the printing press. Did you know that the primary initial purpose of the printing press was to create indulgences that the Church could sell?