Notably materialist theories-the church condemns any hint of them. In science the church has always been wrong about everything. the Greek philosophers) was condemned.Ĥ, Negation of matter, p83. And so religions impeded the progress of Western civilization. ] Similarly other studies, only to improve religious practice. Islam embraces astronomy, et al – but only to calculate the direction of Mecca. Memorization of the holy books makes them, paradoxically, dispensable!ģ, Hatred of science, p81. Full of the important philosophers of the ages, 79m the holy books were thought to include everything worth knowing, and so anything different was banned. Leading to the index of forbidden books in the 16 th century. Thus authorities at the time burned competing version of the Koran. And so on.Ģ, The book’s bias against books, p78. The canon arose politically, in the 4 th century. None were ‘revealed’ Hebrew script did not exist when Moses did. Their creation proceeded according to elementary historical laws. Naturally they are not uniformly respected. (From here on I’m preserving the author’s chapter section breaks, with titles, to illustrate the structure of the book…)ġ, Producing the holy books, p77. Finishing my summary and comments about this book.
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