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Is this that dogmatic evil institution that held back science?“
Well, considering that the Church admission that they were mistaken, and that Galileo was correct, occurred only in 1992, nearly 360 years after the initial trial, I guess Pinsent has some other unspoken reason why this shouldn’t be seen as the church hindering research. Perhaps they are just incredible sticklers for peer review?
Pinsent then wanders off on a strange detour to describe how religious imagery has gradually disappeared from works of art over the centuries, a point that serves no purpose in his argument except provide him with an opportunity to sneer at modern art.
Finally, we get the old tired tropes about atheistic communist regimes, Soviet Russia, Albania and North Korea this is what happens when atheists get power! and no mention whatsoever of secular democracies like the Scandinavian nations.
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