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This is part of the reason why I say that people who claim that church is anti-science, have never actually sat down and listened to the Pope.
While it's important to note all the harm that has been done by bad actors in its ranks, the Roman Catholic Church has been a huge supporter of science for a long time now.
The anti-intellectualism movements in many churches right now are a fairly recent trend. Many of the world's most-prestigous institutions of education and science were founded as religious institutions.
Understanding the natural world was long seen as examining the majesty of creation. The more people learned about the universe the grander its scale.
But of course there have also been times in history where the powerful worked tirelessly to deny people education and opportunity as they hoarded wealth for themselves, and they coopted churches to convince the people that knowledge was evil and that suffering was a sign of Godliness.
It's also important to note that even the Roman Catholic Church is not a monolith. There are certainly those in its hierarchy who are as bad as you might expect, and others who are far more progressive than you'd guess. And when most people (at least and especially in America) say christian, they mostly mean protestant, which is even far less monolithic than the Catholics since it's a bunch of similar churches with their own or sometimes no hierarchical structures.
Just to add, the current pope is a chemist technician
Francis is just running damage control for the absolute fascist that last pope was.
Good. We need damage control after fascists cause damage that's the point.
The Church was definitely anti-science when it threatened to undermine their authority, i.e., when it contradicted some article of faith. This started in the Renaissance and continued up until very recently. The Catholic Church was still fighting against evolutionary theory in the 1980s!
So, if they only believe in science when it doesn't contradict their superstition, and criticize and persecute scientists when it does... does that make them pro-science?
Things that make you go, "Hmmm..."
Actions, that's what counts. Words are empty, especially from catholic church.
You dropped this:
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