Imagine how ahead in our time we would be if religion(s) would not have burned books and people at stake. Re-watching Cosmos, remembering Giordano Bruno.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.This is true. Including Hitler. Hope herr tRUMP doesn't imitate book burning.
sassygirl3869
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Dec 27, 2017
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But it was actually Christians that burned the library at Alexandria.
Gatovicolo
Level 8
Dec 27, 2017
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Sadly true
Let's not forget Hypatia of Alexandria 4th century AD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia) and what was lost by her terrible death at the hands of the Christians. They were into destroying and suppressing knowledge and people from the get go. They even hunted down and killed their own, other Christian groups from Constantine's Council of Nicaea (AD325) who wouldn't follow their Jesus story. Bart D. Ehrman's books on Jesus deal with this quite well. And then they have the balls to talk about Christian goodness and Christian love. Only if you haven't read any real history books about the subject of Christianity.
David1955
Level 8
Dec 27, 2017
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Don’t forget the Malleus Maleficarum
Religion and the state were (and still are in many places) entwined so anything that upsets the power balance is treated viciously in order to keep the supposed order I guess.
Marcobachello
Level 1
Dec 27, 2017
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Family Guy tackled this one. The alternate reality was glorious, as I recall.
IntellectualRN
Level 6
Dec 27, 2017
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Considering that archeologists have found evidence of Egyptians and other ancient cultures who successfully navigated brain surgery, mapped human anatomy, and a whole host of other advances that the Catholic Church eradicated during the middle ages. We would be a lot further along scientifically without Christianity.
ksmartines
Level 6
Dec 27, 2017
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I think the Bible has been on of the most banned books in history, having a copy of it was enough to be burned at the stake by the church as a heretic. The average person was not enlightened enough to correctly interpret it.
Rugglesby
Level 8
Dec 27, 2017
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Maybe because It is just a load of cobblers, nobody has ever been able to interpret it...so it can mean whatever 'those in power' want it to..
I was able to interpret it fine. It’s very similar to the Silmarrillion and just as fictional.
It is just another form of control and magic
@Gatovicolo Eddings said very much the same thing about his books, and in fact most fantasy, a little from the bible and a little from Tolkien .
I think Tolkien said as much in the History of Middle Earth
I do not know. If not religion some other bullshit would have taken its place. Religion is also a creation of human imagination. Don't you think humans would have created something else? Do you really think all the fights that's going on is because of religion? Just do a research on the fundings of terrorist organisations, I am sure results will be mind boggling.
Srijith
Level 7
Dec 27, 2017
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The middle east was home to great astronomers until the religion destroyed the scientific community and brought back the bronze age. This war wouldn't even exist if science had won out then.
SocraticAddict
Level 6
Dec 27, 2017
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I was extremely pissed off when I found out, it was the Christians that burned the Library of Alexandria.
DragonFZ
Level 5
Dec 27, 2017
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A dude by the name of Cyril by memory, had the main librarian flayed with shells because she was a woman.
One of our Agnostic brothers reckons that the Romans didn't burn the books, but took them back to Rome, where they now reside in the Vatican library...??
That was Hypatia, a famous woman mathematician.
They actually tried for a long time to blame it ( Alexandria Library) on the Romans. In that enjoyably awful movie Cleopatra (1963) they flogged that myth, with Rex (Big Julius C) Harrison expressing regret about burning the library. I mean, really?
Yes. One of my favorite scientists, Marvin Minsky (RIP) said, if not for religious foot-draggers, we would have cured death by now. It was too late for him.
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Dec 26, 2017
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