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"Let’s accept every excuse we’re given and accept the Church never burned anybody just for researching science. Scientists got in trouble for controversial view
by stared 2y ago
"Let’s accept every excuse we’re given and accept the Church never burned anybody just for researching science. Scientists got in trouble for controversial views on non-scientific subjects like prophecies or the Trinity, or for political missteps. [...]
Did Giordano Bruno die for his astronomical discoveries or his atheism? False dichotomy: you can’t have a mind that questions the stars but never thinks to question the Bible."
- Kolmogorov Complicity And The Parable Of Lightning | Slate Star Codex (https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-and-the-parable-of-lightning/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-...)
- Almondsetat 2y agoWhy are you bringing up someone from the Reinassance when I explicitely said that the later Church got way worse than in the middle ages?
- stared 2y agoIt was not my point. The point is that it is (almost) always about politics. Just the Church changed it is the position from a firm one to one for which dissidents pose political danger. I found it surprising, but in the Middle Ages, there was a certain permission for atheism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb5mYqnKFlI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb5mYqnKFlI