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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Neocon who wrote (78102)10/22/2003 12:58:00 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486
 
"He had admirers and detractors"

Yes. We all do. The point is that the Church has always protected Her superstitions and thus stomped on science and human progress.

Message 19423748

"But the old system of deducing scientific truth from scriptural texts was renewed in the development of scholastic theology, and ecclesiastical power, acting through thousands of subtle channels, was made to aid this development. The old idea of the futility of physical science and of the vast superiority of theology was revived. Though Albert's main effort was to Christianize science, he was dealt with by the authorities of the Dominican order, subjected to suspicion and indignity, and only escaped persecution for sorcery by yielding to the ecclesiastical spirit of the time, and working finally in theological channels by, scholastic methods."