REPRESENTATIVE Higgins saying what we all thought the plan was out loud with the attack on public libraries - they want to replace them all with church libraries.
Theocrats get the :gulag: .
REPRESENTATIVE Higgins saying what we all thought the plan was out loud with the attack on public libraries - they want to replace them all with church libraries.
Theocrats get the :gulag: .
On the other hand, the European "Dark Ages" also roughly coincide with the Islamic Golden Age where learning and science were promoted and funded by religious authorities.
So I guess... the only way to stop a bad guy with a religion is a good guy with religion? Religion is a land of contrasts? Idk, help me out here comrades.
I think it's a bit misleading to conceive of the historical role of the church as solely restricting access to knowledge. although mass culture and public libraries simply could not have been invented yet, the roman catholic church was preserving and building upon the knowledge that did exist. europe certainly wasn't as dynamic as the muslim world during the golden age, but that's not because the church was like "no science allowed, only religion, which is the opposite of science."
to stop the school religionists im advocating for equipping all teachers with their own esoteric religion to defend their students from other religion :thonk:
Fun fact about the Islamic scientists of that era. They figured out how to distill alcohol. They didn't drink it, of course, they used it to make perfume. Every bottle of vodka or whiskey etc you see has its roots in the Islamic golden age.
The Virgin alcoholic European stinky boi vs the Chad sober pleasant smelling Arabian scholar
Religion can only take you so far imo, eventually you reach a wall where your teachings are outdated and need consistent re understandings of religion, which makes religion use it's credibility because how can something subject to re-interpretation be the ultimate word of God, so you get a counter movement of fundemnetalists who want an absolute and literal interpretation that is inflexible to the needs of modern society.