10-20-2008, 03:16 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Falls Creek, Oz.
Posts: 11,192
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Originally Posted by Joan of Bark
To clarify my point, some Christians engage in idolatry when they react so violently to criticism of their 'holy' book. Would an Edward Gibbon fan want to throw someone in jail for deriding The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?
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Dear Joan of Bark,
You make a good point in identifying authority worship here. Edward Gibbon made the Librorum Prohibitorum
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A number of authors and intellectuals whose works are widely read today in most leading universities and are now considered as the foundations of science were listed on the Index, e.g. Kepler's New Astronomy, his Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, and his World Harmony were quickly placed on the Index after their publication.[23] Other examples of noteworthy intellectuals and religious figures on the Index include Jean Paul Sartre, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, Rene Descartes, Francis Bacon, John Milton, John Locke, Galileo Galilei, Blaise Pascal and Saint Faustina Kowalska.
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Best wishes,
Pete
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