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hazyoasis — Giordano Bruno
Published: 2011-09-21 23:49:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 3439; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 356
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Being right too soon can be dangerous, especially when tyrannical religious folk want to continue spreading their nonsense. And the church didn't just kill one man, it slowed down the progress of all mankind. The full quote is "Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds." Honor this man for his courage to stand up for the truth.Related content
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Bruno was tried and put to death for his heretical theological and philosophical views. His scientific insights weren't even what riled the church at the time (and neither did Galileo's for that matter). Like Hypatia and Galileo, he's been inappropriately recast as a martyr for science among the pantheon of saints in atheist mythology.
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I'll have to look him up! Sounds like a cool guy
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You know what slowed down our scientific knowledge even further? When Aristarchus developed the heliocentric model, but then Aristotle's geocentric model was more widely accepted because of his reputation. Imagine how far we could have gotten if the heliocentric model was accepted!
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The "Dark Ages" weren't even a real thing. The entire notion that the period between antiquity and the Renaissance was a period of intellectual, social, cultural, and scientific stagnation is a myth that has been utterly refuted by modern scholarship. There was plenty of scientific progress during the Middle Ages, and plenty of superstition during the Renaissance and early Modern period. The Renaissance itself was the fruit of the Medieval world.
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All religions slow our progress that's why we should abolish them or at least give them no power ( "is your shit, don't throw it on us" )
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