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Entry: The Broken Compass Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_broken_compass#11557 Post contents: The Catholic Church did their very worst to hold back progress. They stole every book they could and burned those they couldn't. On top of that, they rubbed the ink off classic works of math and physics and scribbled magical appeals to their god over them. Under the Romans, there were roads, baths, central heat, running water and flushing toilets, water powered mills and factories. Under the Catholics, all that was destroyed to build monuments to an invisible sky fairy. It took over 1,000 years to recover from the Church's destruction of technology. Lest anyone forget, the Inquisition was murdering people right up until WWI (last one in Mexico). And Galileo wasn't reinstated until the 1980s! Today, they spend their time abusing children and obstructing the punishment of pedophiles. It would be hard to find a more violent and evil mental illness than religion. Sent at: 2008 09 07