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Sometimes I wonder how the world would look if that wasn't in the bible. Would people have behaved differently?
by spaetzleesser 6y ago
Sometimes I wonder how the world would look if that wasn't in the bible. Would people have behaved differently?
- 29athrowaway 6y agoLikely, I would be posting this from a flying car on Mars if it wasn't for the church. This now defunct website put it beautifully: https://web.archive.org/web/20050314130905/http://www.superstringtheory.org/history/history1.html https://web.archive.org/web/20050314130905/http://www.supers... The church forced people to believe in the Geocentric model, they murdered Hypatia of Alexandria, they harassed the fuck out of Galileo, Kepler's family, and countless other scientists. Now they're all about preaching about forgiveness and altruism, but before they ruled people's lives with an iron fist. You cannot discover gravity if you believe in Geocentrism. Without gravity it's harder to get to the laws of motion. Without laws of motion you have no physics. And so on, so forth.