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How Christianity Remade the World: Tom Holland Interview

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Galileo and the Inquisition

The myth that Galileo was silenced by sinister inquisitors who torture him and throw him into prison isn't true. It's the fact that Galileo was arguing for something that according for consensus of the time, which wasn't proven. And it provides Protestants in particular with an absolute paradigm of everything that they find darkest about the church. I think atheism is basically a kind of logical end point for trends within the Protestantism," says Richard Dawkins.

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