1-pope alexander, believing that the world was flat, "split" up the world into east and west and gave spain and portugal the blessing to conquer either side.
2-the church accused many scientists of heresy: among them newton, copernicus, and galileo, saying that their researches were wrong (heliocentric universe, gravity, round earth) only to find out that they were right all along
3-the church took adam and eve literally, thus licensing all the scum that was thrown and done to women--witch hunts and that blood-soaked book, the witches' hammer. they even put forward that stupid concept of original sin only to say, years later, that adam and eve are but symbols. ie christ died for the symboolic adam.
2007-06-10
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