Development of Modern World and Religion

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Development of Modern World and Religion

Since the beginning of human existence, our ability to think and ask

questions has led us to answer questions sometimes with uncertainty

and doubt. Many natural occurrences that are today easily explained

due to our technological advances were great mysteries to early

societies. By not being able to answer their questions, many

attributed storms, floods, heat and cold to acts of gods, which was a

much more plausible explanation than not knowing at all. Soon people

came to rely on these explanations; for thousands of years people were

raised with this belief that even newer religions based their texts on

the belief that gods created our world. Because of this, religions had

to make statements on how the gods created this world, which later

they realized, too late, that the advancement of science was turning

their written beliefs into lies. The Roman Church tried to forcefully

stop the circulation of the writings of early philosophers, but soon

the quest for knowledge was too great. Early Christians trying to cope

with this emerging belief decided to try and stifle this resurgence of

science by initiating bans on the study of anything not pertaining to

God and tried to stall as long as possible before they had to take

back their own beliefs.

The Roman Catholic Church had been, since the fall of Rome, a

superpower in its own. Nations were created and destroyed in its name

and from the will of the Pope. The power of the Church rested in the

fact that people feared the Pope and his power to condemn kings to

either Heaven or Hell. With this immense power, the Church could tell

people what the...

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...ieved is a falsity. Even today

the Catholic Church still demands that it's still right on many topics

that have been proven wrong my modern scientists. Gradually the church

is letting up; no longer do they say that Noah lived to 800 years old,

or that Moses parted the Red Sea. Now more scientific explanations are

sought to modernize the Church so that followers will stay loyal. The

Church might one day soon have to take back so much that religion will

no longer have any meaning.

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[1] A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom,

Andrew D. White (1896, D. Appleton and Company)

[2] The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, Nicolaus Copernicus (1543,

letter to Pope Paul III)

[3] On The Eternity of the World, Thomas Aquinas

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