HARD FACTS: So You Think Christianity Suppressed Science and Intellect, Especially in the Middle Ages?
We’ve all heard it. You know, the stuff about how during the Middle Ages the church suppressed science and encouraged myths and fables. And who can forget those yarns about how the church made everybody think the Earth is flat as a pancake and the center of the universe? LOL!
Well, there is another side to this collection of supposedly long-established historical fact and that side is that it’s not so established after all. The reality, according to science historian Michael Keas, who lays out the facts in his book “Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion.”
Check it out here and then leave your thoughts in the comments:
It’s a bit misleading that never once is the word, Catholic, uttered. Because these were Catholic universities. And Catholic scientists and scholars. There is a lot of anti-Catholic feeling by Protestants to this day.
You should change that.
HillFaith is not anti-Catholic. HillFaith is pro Jesus Christ, the only name given under heaven by which we can be saved (Acts 4:12).
Lines up with what I have read from Rodney Stark and Victor Davis Hanson. I credit Hanson with noting tremendous accomplishments by Europeans during the “Dark Ages”. Stark spends more time on specifics of what came from Christian Europe. Stark and others mention the creation of universities. enjoyable video.
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