Huh? Not all the Catholics lived during the Inquisition. And then there is the Protestant take on the faith: the stake burnings there (unless you were seemingly a witch) seem to have added up to exactly one (Servetus, at the hands of Calvin). And even one was one too many, but hardly the threat you enunciate.
All of them since around 1200 to about 1900 (or the present--if you were not fooled by the name change).
So then what scientists who were christians are we talking about then? Modern ones?
And then there is the Protestant take on the faith: the stake burnings there (unless you were seemingly a witch) seem to have added up to exactly one (Servetus, at the hands of Calvin).
The hundred years war depopulated Northern Europe, over the question of which church a local community might be allowed to attend. Christianity and winning philosophical arguments at gunpoint were hard philosophies to disentangle for over 1000 years. You can't just pretend that away.
And even one was one too many, but hardly the threat you enunciate.
Hmm, likewise, the reign of terror, say, hardly killed anyone compared to the overall population of France. Clearly, you would have been free to express sympathy for the monarchy throughout the French revolution.
Now, they have brought the office of Inquisition back. What do you think of that?