• CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    67
    ·
    5 months ago

    Most of them were forced to be religious or they’d be burned alive as heretics.

    How many were actually atheists? Id wager most

    • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      52
      ·
      5 months ago

      Also, for a long time one of the only ways a non-rich person could get an education was by joining the clergy

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        5 months ago

        It turns out that taking 10% of an entire community’s wages can fund so much more than extravagant buildings… like, an education!

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      20
      ·
      5 months ago

      Yep.

      If you weren’t doing science under the church, the church was rarely happy someone was doing science.

      Everything had to be approved by the church at every step. Not just science, but often art as well.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      5 months ago

      Maybe deists, not necessarily convinced of the Christian god but thinking there could be something in control.

    • GBU_28@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      5 months ago

      I bet some of the non devout were agnostic deists, believing in general “intelligent creation”.

      Some of these folks view the pursuit of knowledge on the universe as understanding God’s designs.

    • takeda@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      edit-2
      4 months ago

      Catholics don’t have a problem with science in fact the belief is that it is a sin if you have a talent given by God and waste it.

      The problem are the Christian sects that decided to interpret the Bible literally that led to these conclusions.

    • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      5 months ago

      Especially once you get into genetics and evolution. A lot of those theories directly contradict creationist theories.