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and where humanity would be now if such works had been widely known.
Pretty much where it is now.
and where humanity would be now if such works had been widely known.
Pretty much where it is now.
The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was formally abolished on 14 June 1966 by Pope Paul VI. But, the Latin Church canon law still recommends that works concerning sacred Scripture, theology, canon law, church history, and any writings which specially concern religion or morals, be submitted to the judgment of the local ordinary. The local ordinary consults someone whom he considers competent to give a judgment and, if that person gives the nihil obstat ("nothing forbids") the local ordinary grants the imprimatur ("let it be printed"). Members of religious institutes require the imprimi potest (it can be printed) of their major superior to publish books on matters of religion or morals.Many works on science and humanism were censored by the Catholic Church. Still are. The Vatican library is full of books that no longer exist outside of the Vatican because of the Church's success at erasing them from print and society. Makes one wonder just how much scientific progress was stifled over the past 500 years, and where humanity would be now if such works had been widely known.
I don't think that's true, particularly in the fields of medicine and astronomy..
Most advances in both medicine & astronomy have occurred in the 20th century, mainly due to the evolution of human technology. Could this technology & knowledge have been developed centuries ago had there not been religious hindrance, that's debatable but if so, would we be more 'advanced' than we are today ? I doubt it.
Another question one should ask is; If scientific knowledge stiffled by the Catholic church prevented europeans from developing (scientifically) earlier, why is it other nations/civilizations, which didn't have the same religious constraints, were not considerably more technologically advanced (& so more scientifically advanced ) than the poor Europeans ? The answer lies in what allowed the rapid advancements in human knowledge & technology during the 20th century. Once you know that, you will realize that where we are today could not have happened any earlier than it has.
It's a common misconception that we weren't more technologically advanced before colonization here. For example, Europeans didn't even bathe, while Native and Indigenous peoples of this land did. The Jamestown colonists couldn't grow food here with their "superior" farming knowledge, and engaged in cannibalism, prompting the nearby Nations to feed them out of pity. Native people genetically engineered corn, and many of the plants grown on these lands that people eat today. We had many brick and stone buildings and many cities the size of London, while the majority of Europe was still living in shacks outside of the landed gentry. Cities such as Cahokia, Sadly, history is often written by the victors, and much has been erased in the name of "progress." Much was abandoned when European diseases were introduced, either accidentally, or in the case of Lord Amherst's attempts at genocide, deliberate acts of biological warfare, forcing a more migratory existence away from places many of our Nations once inhabited. I won't discuss the forced relocations of the late 1800's forcing most Nations onto land that was considered to not be arrable or capable of sustaining life and that was mostly devoid of natural resources with which to build, since that would necessitate discussing politics, and politics is best left outside the Lounge.
Many so-called 21st Century "discoveries" have in the last few years come to prove that we were far more advanced than our European relatives in many areas, a simple search of the hashtag "NativesToldYouSo" on social media will provide examples of cutting-edge modern science proving our ancient wisdom to be scientifically correct.
I'd like to close this out by pointing to the fact that the U.S. Constitution itself was primarily sourced from the understanding between the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca Nations, aka the Iroquois Confederacy.
There are many different ways of life, religious doctrines and beliefs, races, and lifestyles, and to compare everything to the modern standards of Western living is a false comparison, since an amalgamation of those created what we all have today.
Well, China would like a word with you. They were dealing with advanced mathematical concepts
Had their society not been interfered with by later Europeans, we'd all be speaking Mandarin today.
It's a common misconception that we weren't more technologically advanced before colonization here. For example, Europeans didn't even bathe, while Native and Indigenous peoples of this land did. The Jamestown colonists couldn't grow food here with their "superior" farming knowledge, and engaged in cannibalism, prompting the nearby Nations to feed them out of pity. Native people genetically engineered corn, and many of the plants grown on these lands that people eat today. We had many brick and stone buildings and many cities the size of London, while the majority of Europe was still living in shacks outside of the landed gentry. Cities such as Cahokia, Sadly, history is often written by the victors, and much has been erased in the name of "progress." Much was abandoned when European diseases were introduced, either accidentally, or in the case of Lord Amherst's attempts at genocide, deliberate acts of biological warfare, forcing a more migratory existence away from places many of our Nations once inhabited. I won't discuss the forced relocations of the late 1800's forcing most Nations onto land that was considered to not be arrable or capable of sustaining life and that was mostly devoid of natural resources with which to build, since that would necessitate discussing politics, and politics is best left outside the Lounge.
Many so-called 21st Century "discoveries" have in the last few years come to prove that we were far more advanced than our European relatives in many areas, a simple search of the hashtag "NativesToldYouSo" on social media will provide examples of cutting-edge modern science proving our ancient wisdom to be scientifically correct.
I'd like to close this out by pointing to the fact that the U.S. Constitution itself was primarily sourced from the understanding between the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca Nations, aka the Iroquois Confederacy.
There are many different ways of life, religious doctrines and beliefs, races, and lifestyles, and to compare everything to the modern standards of Western living is a false comparison, since an amalgamation of those created what we all have today.
Had humanity understood the value of using their various technological achievements to cooperate with each other for the common good rather than using them to kill and conquer each other in the name of gods and flags and profit, we'd be a much more advanced civilization all around.
It seems odd that Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, et al, would have to source their (our) Constitution from a group of Indians living pretty-much in the middle of nowhere when they had almost 900 years of evolving parliamentary democracy and legal principles in their own heritage.
There's something of an irony to that. Years ago I saw President Nixon giving a eulogy on TV to Bob Hope. Among all the sycophantic, obsequious fawning, Nixon said: The British gave us many things, our system of governance, our judiciary, the rule of law, our civil service and by no means least, Bob Hope. If President Nixon said it, then it must be true.“Pretty much in the middle of nowhere” - try the whole of what you call New York and New England, all the way up into QC Canada and beyond....
You can take Jefferson’s word on it if you don’t care to take mine
“You can take Jefferson’s word on it if you don’t care to take mine
That is more senator Mike Lee's word than it is Jefferson's.
Not bad for a guy that not many years before was trying to build a car after work in his coal shed.On this day in 1924, Ford Motor Company in Michigan became the first billion dollar company.