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𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕂𝕖𝕪 @skeletonkey.bsky.social

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake. ~ Catherine Fahringer

aug 23, 2025, 2:27 pm • 2,007 421

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trumpwho.bsky.social @trumpwho.bsky.social

We would have warp drive by now....

aug 24, 2025, 1:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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Rocky Rex @rockyrex.bsky.social

And "christian nationalists" want to do it again. We should always expect the Spanish Inquisition (in some form)

aug 23, 2025, 9:21 pm • 1 0 • view
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dargster.bsky.social @dargster.bsky.social

It’s all about control. Intelligent, questioning people are a threat to that control.

aug 24, 2025, 12:50 am • 0 0 • view
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bakrboy.bsky.social @bakrboy.bsky.social

You mean like what’s happening now and a small group of pseudo christians are dragging science back again???

aug 23, 2025, 8:45 pm • 2 0 • view
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Alejandro @alecw81.bsky.social

now Trump and RFK Jr are going to do the same

aug 23, 2025, 11:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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OKI🍁🇨🇦C’est Moi from Treaty 7 land @ljdr48.bsky.social

I’m sure the Church was following guidance from their assorted Bibles and Divine interpretations. After all - lots of wisdom there; kill all who disagree with you. How can you argue with the current ‘God’s’ word. So much hasn’t really changed. But now we legislate controls instead of actual killing

aug 23, 2025, 5:10 pm • 2 0 • view
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Jackie Daytona @irr777.bsky.social

Even now there are people who think the bible should be the only thing we live by. Screw that

aug 23, 2025, 9:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mother of Destruction @maofdestruction.bsky.social

And they keep doing it, over and over again.

aug 24, 2025, 4:46 am • 0 0 • view
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detoxthegop.bsky.social @detoxthegop.bsky.social

Like Baghdad, Iraq during the Islamic Golden Age, the "City of Wisdom". Lost its role as the world's center of learning after the Mongol invasion in 1258. & like Trump doing to US, lead the destruction of its great mathematics, astronomy & medicine libraries & the death of its intellectual leaders.

aug 23, 2025, 7:17 pm • 2 0 • view
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Catman52 @catman52.bsky.social

Yep!!!

aug 23, 2025, 5:39 pm • 1 0 • view
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Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social

The underlying premise of that is that if Western Europe was not "doing science", Eastern Europe/Islam/China couldn't be. Obviously untrue. And in Western Europe, can only think of Bruno who burned. Bacon or Copericus didn't.

aug 23, 2025, 5:25 pm • 7 0 • view
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Jon @m5mustdie.bsky.social

Copernicus wasn’t persecuted because he only published shortly before his death of natural causes.

aug 23, 2025, 11:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social

How do you know he would have been persecuted if he lived? Seems you are assuming what you need to prove. (The Church, ie Catholicism, seemed to think his ideas silly, not dangerous.)

aug 24, 2025, 6:50 am • 0 0 • view
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Jon @m5mustdie.bsky.social

I only point out that Copernicus wasn’t persecuted because he wasn’t available. Perhaps he would have agreed to keep silent as Galileo did at first, recanting heliocentrism to be possibility rather than fact. No way to know and no way to prove it. We only know other heretics were persecuted.

aug 24, 2025, 9:12 am • 1 0 • view
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Jon @m5mustdie.bsky.social

It’s reasonable to assume that championing a heliocentric truth that conflicted with Biblical truth would not have been tolerated, as the Church was not tolerant of unorthodoxy. Evidence: the Roman Inquisition to combat the Protestant heresy was established the year before Copernicus died.

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Jon @m5mustdie.bsky.social

Why do you think the Church found heresy silly rather than dangerous? If they thought heliocentrism absurd it’s because it contradicted God’s truth. If they thought it silly they would have ignored it. If they thought it dangerous they would have suppressed it, which is in fact what they did.

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Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social

I don't think they had no problem with heresy. I think its very telling you focus so strongly on Galileo, who (1) was not in the Dark Ages by even most generous definition, (2) wasn't burned. Nothing to say re de Cusa, Grossetest, Bacon, importation of work of Greek & Arab writers?

aug 24, 2025, 9:27 am • 0 0 • view
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Jon @m5mustdie.bsky.social

Not at all true. I focused on Copernicus because that is the name you mentioned to contrast with Bruno. You will see this is true if you simply revisit my first post. You seem to be arguing with someone else?

aug 24, 2025, 9:40 am • 0 0 • view
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Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social

I said, "Bacon or Copericus didn't." As in didn't get burned. You moved on quickly from Copericus to Galileo, who also didn't get burned and isn't from the Dark Ages by any definition. You completely ignored Bacon. You seem to be reading off a script and not arguing at all.

aug 24, 2025, 9:46 am • 0 0 • view
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Jon @m5mustdie.bsky.social

I moved from the dead Copernicus to fate of Galileo because you demanded “proof”. It was a way to demonstrate the reasonable assumption that Copernicus would have been treated the similarly had he lived. Neither was Dark Ages so I don’t know why you mention that.

aug 24, 2025, 10:04 am • 0 0 • view
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Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social

Except the Church allowed speculation. You could theorise all you liked as long as you did not insist it was true. Galileo not only said he was correct (even in things that we don't think correct), he satirised the pope. And still didn't burn.

aug 24, 2025, 9:18 am • 0 0 • view
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Jon @m5mustdie.bsky.social

Heliocentrism was speculation in Copernicus’s writings, but Galileo had evidence in the form of a Jovian central system. He provided proof that was confirmed by Jesuit astronomers. And yet his speculations were suppressed.

aug 24, 2025, 9:48 am • 0 0 • view
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Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social

Yes. Irrelevant however to the original claim that science didn't exist in the Dark Ages. If anything its counter evidence to that claim, since Galileo was drawing on the theories of others who actually were working in the (long) Dark Age.

aug 24, 2025, 9:51 am • 0 0 • view
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Jon @m5mustdie.bsky.social

I never claimed science didn’t exist in the Dark Ages, so your beef is with someone else.

aug 24, 2025, 10:07 am • 0 0 • view
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Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social

Yes. The person I replied to.

aug 24, 2025, 10:22 am • 0 0 • view
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Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social

The moons of Jupiter weren't evidence of heliocentrism in any way, since they were equally compatible to any other model of the time, and certainly to the Tychonic, the consensus model of the time. bsky.app/profile/mich...

aug 24, 2025, 11:50 am • 2 0 • view
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Jon @m5mustdie.bsky.social

I’m reluctant to disagree with a historian, but were not the discovery of bodies orbiting Jupiter a repudiation of the theory that all heavenly bodies revolved around the Earth, as the Church was insisting upon the Ptolemaic model during the 16th century?

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Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social

Even in the Ptolemaic model, all the planets didn't *just* revolve around the Earth, they revolved on an epicycle on a deferent, or on a system of a few epicycles. As mentioned in the linked thread, some Astronomers saw Jupiter's moons as the first empirical evidence of epicycles. ...

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Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social

Such as?

aug 24, 2025, 9:16 am • 0 0 • view
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Jon @m5mustdie.bsky.social

Are you seriously asking for documentation of persecution of heretics in the 16th Century? I hope you understand that persecution wasn’t limited to burning, right?

aug 24, 2025, 9:24 am • 0 0 • view
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Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social

I do hope you understand the question is not persecution of heretics in 16th century, but the idea that science did not occur between the fall of Rome and the 16th century.

aug 24, 2025, 9:29 am • 1 0 • view
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DCNative8 @dcnative8.bsky.social

Who knew Trump would be doing the same.

aug 24, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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Thomas Christian Williams, author & speaker @ruinsofempires.bsky.social

Ch.22, Volney’s Ruins of Empires (1791), translated by Thomas Jefferson (1802): “The whole history of religion is only the history of the errors of the human mind which imagines causes, build systems, then, finding one defective, destroys it for another not less so.”

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Thomas Christian Williams, author & speaker @ruinsofempires.bsky.social

Ch.21, Volney’s Ruins of Empires (1791), translated by Thomas Jefferson (1802): “Pious men! Who speak of God with so much certainty and confidence. Help us to understand how an abstract being you call God or Soul can exist without a body, life without organs or sensations.”

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This Ain’t Right 🇳🇿 🇲🇽 @thisaintright.bsky.social

💯 BTW, I don’t believe in Thor either.

aug 23, 2025, 8:37 pm • 2 0 • view
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Old Ball Of Rage @oldballofrage.bsky.social

Yeah? So....what? Everyone else who wasn't white and didn't have the Church, what about them?

aug 24, 2025, 5:07 am • 0 1 • view
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Annie LaCourt @annielaco.bsky.social

Okay. Are we morally advanced enough to handle A. I. and Nuclear weapons? If not then perhaps we should be glad science is lagging? I once told a room full of AI phd’s they should get a masters on philosophy before they even thought creating an AGI. 1/2

aug 23, 2025, 7:15 pm • 0 0 • view
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Annie LaCourt @annielaco.bsky.social

They responded that client change would kill us first. We are not ready for the science we have.

aug 23, 2025, 7:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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eM, The Unknown Philosopher @emerald-metaphor.bsky.social

We need a new myth, one to integrate them beyond the paradox of saying so. This aim to reduce all of Reality to some idealism or monism is the problem, not the solution. We need a better myth to see why this is true, to look for the Phoenix, i.e. Para-Pluralism: www.youtube.com/@M.BrianPalm...

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eM, The Unknown Philosopher @emerald-metaphor.bsky.social

This is not true. Physics, especially w this TOE & Sky God in Ram nonsense, paint Western Science a dogmatic dead end of EXACTLY the same character as the Medieval Schools. Physics is well a religion by now, AI is a cult of AUTOBIOCIDE. Faith & Reason have always been in a sick co-dependent dance.

aug 23, 2025, 11:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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donrowlett.bsky.social @donrowlett.bsky.social

I look forward to the day when people no longer use religion as an excuse to treat fellow humans as social outcasts or as inferior in dignity and worth.

aug 23, 2025, 3:20 pm • 34 0 • view
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Nick @xkernalsandersx.bsky.social

I look forward to the day when people no longer use religion. Period.

aug 23, 2025, 11:18 pm • 1 0 • view
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betterway16.bsky.social @betterway16.bsky.social

Possibly. But for centuries monasteries etc were also important centers of learning in a world dominated by warrior kings.

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daveray1979.bsky.social @daveray1979.bsky.social

That's bull$hit.

aug 23, 2025, 10:00 pm • 1 0 • view
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VictoriousYankee @victoriousyankee.bsky.social

AMEN!!!!!!

aug 23, 2025, 5:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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Boringbore @woodenwood.bsky.social

The conflict between Galileo Galilei and the Catholic Church arose from his support of heliocentrism, which contradicted the Church's geocentric views. This led to his trial & house arrest, symbolizing the struggle between science & religious authority. Look familiar you Christofascismfuckers?

aug 23, 2025, 6:42 pm • 2 0 • view
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vidaexploits.bsky.social @vidaexploits.bsky.social

They weren’t and are still not Christians. Ppl want to throw the baby out with the bath water. Jesus did not tell us to treat each other the way corporate religion has. Stop judging the book by the con artists that have twisted it.

aug 23, 2025, 10:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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Aisopose @icesage.com

Wrong, they haven't held science back at all they've kept esoteric knowledge about God from you.

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wrenbyron.bsky.social @wrenbyron.bsky.social

The existence of nature is supported by concrete evidence. No evidence a supreme ethereal deity, a God, exists. No Satan either! No concrete evidence of an old guy named "I AM" sitting in the sky watching people to decide whom he will favour, live well, and whom he will mistreat, kill, and die. Duh!

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MinD 🇦🇺 @mindimmock.bsky.social

I agree . Let's get religion out of politics and public school. Schools are for facts, not fiction.

aug 24, 2025, 8:52 am • 1 0 • view
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Peter Gaddy @xeraser.bsky.social

Religion is a human construct designed to manipulate and control the gullible for the few. Knowledge is the antidote for Religion

aug 23, 2025, 6:24 pm • 1 0 • view
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Usman-Smith @usmansmith.bsky.social

America today is said to be guided by religion. It is not It is guided by magic. Magic decides everything from health to economics. Science lost the election. Magic won. It is the throbbing uneducated racist half brain under the red MAGA hat. It's what they all believe. Bad news. Magic is not real

aug 23, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
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italianvln 🇺🇲😺🎻🗽🇺🇦 ⚖🦉🐦🎭🩰 @italianvln.bsky.social

Spot on! Thanks for posting (and for crediting the author!!)

aug 23, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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Phlip 🇵🇪🦖🤖 @penbird42.bsky.social

There are many legitimate reasons to bust on Roman Catholics, however...

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Tom Dollar @tomdollar.bsky.social

Personally I would say 2,000.

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dragovayne.bsky.social @dragovayne.bsky.social

Close to what?

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The Corduroy Bandit @corduroybandit.bsky.social

I’m sure we’d have found another colossal ascientific waste of effort, but in this reality, religion is a big one.

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pity4soulfelony.bsky.social @pity4soulfelony.bsky.social

It chose and served a great ally: the sword

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asimov74.bsky.social @asimov74.bsky.social

Also with tories destroying everything labour achieves just to suit their ideology!!!

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Mark IT Geek @markitgeek.bsky.social

The Theft of Our Values www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPOM...

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Tess 🏳️‍⚧️ @gortess.bsky.social

Honestly, good thing they did. I'm not sure we are mature enough as a species for the tech we have now. We need to heavily invest in the culture tree.

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Bad_Cyclist @badcyclist.bsky.social

Fuck’n Amen to that 👍

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atheistmark12.bsky.social @atheistmark12.bsky.social

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atheistmark12.bsky.social @atheistmark12.bsky.social

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Dennis Wicker @wickthedick.bsky.social

"Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by Father in Heaven. For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them. Matthew-18:29 more bullshit

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Go Deep, I'll Look for You @godeep.bsky.social

“No dammit to hell, the sun revolves around the earth,” is among some of the more brilliant things the church has declared.

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TUT 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌻🐦‍🔥♾️ 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦🇯🇵🇸🇪🇵🇸 @sendtheenvoy.bsky.social

I think the use of the word church encompasses only Christians. I would use the term religion. Science and art was going really well until the Abrahamic religions came along.

aug 23, 2025, 10:52 pm • 1 0 • view
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Hue G @heynicea.bsky.social

Another uneducated atheists indulging in historical revisionism.

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Jon @m5mustdie.bsky.social

No history was revised. Fahringer gave an opinion of where we might be IF history had been different.

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straightarrow67.bsky.social @straightarrow67.bsky.social

An interesting thought. I think bigger drivers in development are the various needs of people in different living environments. Climate, geography, ease of movement and food availability. But through time it feels like the military and war have driven science rapidly.

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sapiens365.bsky.social @sapiens365.bsky.social

Doubt it. All Church did was drive science north. Newton wrote thesis on gravity instead of somebody named Maximilian Galliano. If there was a delay in scientific advancement, relatively brief. The death of medieval Hypatia was probably a bigger blow. Torn to death by Christians in Alexandria.

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geographyisdestiny.bsky.social @geographyisdestiny.bsky.social

Remember, there was a time religious men got their whitey tighties in a bunch over the number zero? Or when someone dared to say the Earth wasn’t the center of the solar system? Biggest procrastination on the human project ever.

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Dave in AK @bikewritedave.bsky.social

We're so Eurocentric and unwilling to properly critique Christianity that we are never told in school that the Dark Ages only occurred on one continent while much of the rest of the world flourished. And most Americans still don't know this. And they wouldn't like knowing the reason why.

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social

Well, there have been other dark ages, they're just mostly not as well documented. It's only a slight exaggeration to say that when great libraries are burned, dark ages follow. Often those are driven by forces from within a society, but occasionally from outside. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social

One example of a dark ages imposed from the outside is the burning of the Aztec codices by the Spanish Catholic conquistadors. www.ninaevezeininger.com/trying-to-le...

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Dave in AK @bikewritedave.bsky.social

I was down in Peru a couple of years ago looking at the all but completely demolished ruins of the Incan Empire and all I could think was, “The Spaniards were as awful as the Moguls. Maybe even worse.” Only Machu Picchu survived, and that’s because the Inca managed to hide it.

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Dave in AK @bikewritedave.bsky.social

The only reason we have the Mayan ruins is because the empire had long since fallen by the time the Spaniards arrived, and the jungles had covered the cities, temples, and pyramids.

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coupe33.bsky.social @coupe33.bsky.social

Still facts

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Rob @orion64.bsky.social

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Rob @orion64.bsky.social

3000 if the Romans hadn't torched the library of Alexandria

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Karin @juakar.bsky.social

I have always thought religion is the root of all evil !

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libpappap.bsky.social @libpappap.bsky.social

TRUTH…We should be exploring the stars!!

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ccc333-05.bsky.social @ccc333-05.bsky.social

Rome officially made Christianity the state religion. Then a few generations later Rome fell and the Wrst collapsed into darkness. Paganism is western culture! Ha

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phydeaux101.bsky.social @phydeaux101.bsky.social

Yeah, we could have blown ourselves up 1200 years ago.

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jpsfo.bsky.social @jpsfo.bsky.social

☠️👍👍👍 ABSOFUKKINLUTELY! 'religion' is the Root of All EVIL!👹👹👹

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mecha-sheep.bsky.social @mecha-sheep.bsky.social

I'm an atheist, but this is absolutely bullshit. If the church was really the cause of such a delay, then places like India or China would have been far ahead of Europe. The scientific revolution happened in Europe. Not in Japan, not in China, not in India, not in the Aztec empire.

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vidaexploits.bsky.social @vidaexploits.bsky.social

Great points. We also seem to conveniently forget that the message was usurped for their needs and wants. How can we possibly think Christians and Christianity followed the doctrine of Christ? Seems a little naive.

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Angrywhitebitch @angrywhitebitch.bsky.social

The church is the cause in the delay, denial, and war on science. Three guesses why.

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mecha-sheep.bsky.social @mecha-sheep.bsky.social

If that was true, then the places where there was no Church would be far ahead of us. That's not the case. Hence, your affirmation is bullshit.

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mecha-sheep.bsky.social @mecha-sheep.bsky.social

"The war on science" has two causes : 1. private interests. Exemples : fossil fuel industry, tobacco industry, dictators and so on. 2. stupidity and ignorance. Exemples : antivax, antinuclear, anti-GMO, flat-earthers, astrology, sorcery and so on.

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mecha-sheep.bsky.social @mecha-sheep.bsky.social

Does the Church (which one by the way ?) ends up acting upon one of those two causes ? Yes, of course. But not more or less than any other human organisation.

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mecha-sheep.bsky.social @mecha-sheep.bsky.social

As for the original post, talking about "1500 years", it's absolutely bullshit and I would classify it in the "stupidity and ignorance". Because history is also a science. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Sy...

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Angrywhitebitch @angrywhitebitch.bsky.social

Even you can understand that was a metaphor, like getting kicked to kingdom come, just an expression, not literal like people take the Bible. I’m butting in because you could lighten up some. Dude! Nobody knows, we will never know in r lifetime so we should just honor this planet and live it.

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mecha-sheep.bsky.social @mecha-sheep.bsky.social

Nor in the Arab world, nor in Africa, nor in Australia... Europe. If the Church was such an intellectual disaster, all those places where it did not exist would be Wakanda or Atlantis. And that's not the case.

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TUT 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌻🐦‍🔥♾️ 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦🇯🇵🇸🇪🇵🇸 @sendtheenvoy.bsky.social

I think you need to go back and sharpen your pencil on the Middle East. it was a much larger place before modern maps.

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Elder Michael @mldunigan.bsky.social

And we would all be living until we are 150, right. A totally unscientific and unfounded conclusion.

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social

Poppycock, if that were so nothing would stop the Byzantine Empire, sundry Muslim caliphates, African civilizations, and China from having science fiction technologies like so. Even in Western Europe a lot of knowledge building continued, albeit with far less rapid transmission than on Roman roads.

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MisterMagpie @arrrrjobe.bsky.social

We've progressed too fast in some areas as it is. I am more pissed off about their monopoly on philosophy and ethics which have meant that we haven't really discussed morality without the church shutting down alternatives

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thesteelavenger.bsky.social @thesteelavenger.bsky.social

They're trying again

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Future ExPat @moonshinea.bsky.social

A huge part of this was the establishment of medical colleges for men and the eradication of women as healers. So much wisdom lost.

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Ma Carol @caroodles.bsky.social

Another reason I despise the Roman Catholic Church, and all organized religion.

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Crash @gtcrash.bsky.social

History repeats

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damnusernametaken.bsky.social @damnusernametaken.bsky.social

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bigfatbastard.bsky.social @bigfatbastard.bsky.social

Yup, religion should be banned, it's not good for you or your children's health... Plus, they seem to be infested with child molesters...

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Reggie Hammond @funkydrummer.bsky.social

And we are going back again🤦

aug 23, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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dfprovine @dfprovine.bsky.social

I recommend David Hackett Fischer's book _Historians' Fallacies_, specifically the Fallacy of the Fictional Question. Any 'evidence' of what would have happened if Lincoln had lived can only be gathered from a universe in which he did not, so all conclusions are necessarily suspect.

aug 23, 2025, 11:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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Zambeezee @zambeezee.bsky.social

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Cheeky Alpha Monkey @alpha-aurora.bsky.social

Easily

aug 23, 2025, 10:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mr. Sidis @wjsidis.bsky.social

The unintelligent have always feared the minority intelligent.

aug 23, 2025, 9:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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jdknight69.bsky.social @jdknight69.bsky.social

I don’t think so, pagan authoritarians have suppressed science too.

aug 26, 2025, 4:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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ella1985us.bsky.social @ella1985us.bsky.social

I suggest you watch what you say, or you will be killed by those who have been swindling money from fools through religious scams. For over a thousand years, they have been robbing the whole world in the name of religion. Do you want to upset this balance?

aug 24, 2025, 1:33 am • 0 0 • view
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dreamer15.bsky.social @dreamer15.bsky.social

Evangelicals support fascism

aug 23, 2025, 3:20 pm • 11 0 • view
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Dr. Kimm @drkimm.bsky.social

we are headed to an era of religious warfare, maybe lets not rush into it.

aug 23, 2025, 4:58 pm • 1 0 • view
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AnnieOPopoAgie 💙💙💙 @annieopopoagie.bsky.social

Seems unlikely given that people are people.

aug 24, 2025, 1:27 am • 0 0 • view
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Kevin Engle @kdengle1.bsky.social

Burn the witch!

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aug 24, 2025, 12:42 pm • 0 0 • view
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floydadatxjoe.bsky.social @floydadatxjoe.bsky.social

That is not the beginning,this started 6000 years ago with a cult in the area around Mongolia. I am writing a book,but it is going so slow that I may leave this place ,leaving manuscript and notes for children to throw away .....so no change in this lifetime,except for me becoming whole

aug 23, 2025, 6:16 pm • 1 0 • view
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catholicbard.bsky.social @catholicbard.bsky.social

www.amazon.com/Brilliant-Ca...

aug 24, 2025, 9:02 am • 0 0 • view
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GoaTranceNET @goatrancenet.bsky.social

& not to mention of the islamic repression & oppression on humanity and the human mind

aug 24, 2025, 9:31 am • 0 0 • view
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dipradan.bsky.social @dipradan.bsky.social

There is definitely a good reason the period of maximum Church Control were called the Dark Ages.

aug 23, 2025, 3:59 pm • 8 0 • view
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grahbudd.bsky.social @grahbudd.bsky.social

When do you think that period was?

aug 23, 2025, 8:06 pm • 1 0 • view
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dipradan.bsky.social @dipradan.bsky.social

From the end of the Roman Empire in 476AD until the Renaissance.

aug 23, 2025, 10:01 pm • 2 0 • view
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grahbudd.bsky.social @grahbudd.bsky.social

The height of the power of the medieval papacy was between say 1100-1300 peaking with Innocent III at 1198-1216. But that corresponds to the “high Middle Ages” which saw great advances in all sorts of ways in Western Europe including in science and technology.

aug 24, 2025, 10:56 am • 3 0 • view
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dipradan.bsky.social @dipradan.bsky.social

Imagine how much progress could have been made without those superstitious and corrupt assholes harassing anyone who wouldn't bend the knee towards their idiocy. It's not surprising we got the reformation as soon as there was a printing press.

aug 24, 2025, 12:57 pm • 1 0 • view
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grahbudd.bsky.social @grahbudd.bsky.social

In many cases it was the church structures themselves that enabled technological advance. One example is the development of blast furnaces and metallurgy by the Cistercians (see eg en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laskill ) and arguably it was the Reformation that put a stop to such inventiveness.

aug 24, 2025, 1:04 pm • 1 0 • view
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dipradan.bsky.social @dipradan.bsky.social

Funny how they call the 16th and 17th centuries the Scientific revolution. Enjoy your superstitions. Go peddle your myopic church propaganda elsewhere.

aug 24, 2025, 1:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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grahbudd.bsky.social @grahbudd.bsky.social

Of course the scientific revolution made immense advances. But these advances were in many cases built on or at least partly anticipated by earlier work. The idea of dividing human history into watertight “periods” such as the dark ages or scientific revolution has long been abandoned by historians.

aug 24, 2025, 1:38 pm • 2 0 • view
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dipradan.bsky.social @dipradan.bsky.social

A lot of people want to prop up the notion that the Church pushed scientific and other advancement. It's pure Christian Propaganda.

aug 24, 2025, 1:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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grahbudd.bsky.social @grahbudd.bsky.social

But it is at least striking and indisputable that it is precisely in Western Europe where we think mostly of the church and its influence that modern science emerged and so vigorously developed. Correlation is not causation but the counterfactual, that the church inhibited it would be hard to show.

aug 24, 2025, 1:52 pm • 1 0 • view
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grahbudd.bsky.social @grahbudd.bsky.social

The “church” considered broadly as an institution has existed for a long time and in many places and it is hard to draw completely comprehensive conclusions. Byzantium for example isn’t normally associated with significant scientific advances (but see people like Philoponus who influenced Galileo).

aug 24, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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tynamm.bsky.social @tynamm.bsky.social

And a lot of people want to prop up the notion that the church was some kind of anti-science monstrosity that killed geniuses - instead of employing them. It's pure anti-Christian propaganda. (And I speak as an atheist who despises organised religion.) Learn nuance. Also history.

aug 24, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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guitarhands.bsky.social @guitarhands.bsky.social

Amen to that, sister!

aug 23, 2025, 8:35 pm • 0 0 • view
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bballyall.bsky.social @bballyall.bsky.social

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James Joy @gardensofjoy.bsky.social

We would be ahead if the Germanic peoples hadn't burned and destroyed civilization and the libraries everywhere and killed everyone with the knowledge of the past. What we have was preserved by the monasteries and the Muslims.

aug 24, 2025, 12:52 am • 0 0 • view
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lila7.bsky.social @lila7.bsky.social

It’s interesting that at one time Muslims were way ahead. But now…

aug 24, 2025, 9:22 am • 0 0 • view
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lila7.bsky.social @lila7.bsky.social

Germanic peoples? Where and when?

aug 24, 2025, 9:21 am • 0 0 • view
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James Joy @gardensofjoy.bsky.social

The germanic tribes invaded the Roman Empire. They destroyed everything everywhere they went and only took the silver, gold and jewels that we see in the hoards we find at times that they buried.

aug 25, 2025, 1:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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James Joy @gardensofjoy.bsky.social

Other Empires including the Muslims valued knowledge and collected the books, as well as those with the knowledge to add to what they knew and we saw the advance of civilization from Sumer to Rome.

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James Joy @gardensofjoy.bsky.social

All that was destroyed everywhere the Germanic and Scandinavian people went, and we see it replaced with iron age or even stone aged civilization for the next 500 years.

aug 25, 2025, 1:31 pm • 0 0 • view