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@Urabrask Revealed Nonsense. Galileo's heliocentrism was why he was prosecuted. His insults to the Pope didn't help his situation, but they weren't the why. "(1) The sun is the center of the world and completely devoid of local motion. Assessement: All said that this proposition is...

Oh, God. Catholicismaboos. You wanna bring back indulgences? Prosecuting people for simple scientific realities like "the earth revolves around the sun"? The church being a wing of the state that's easily manipulatable and controllable? Also, over time Catholicism drastically changed the...

You misunderstand Rand severely due to the way the term altruism has been degraded along with many other English words. Read this: What Rand Meant by Altruism | Gary M. Galles It explains what Rand means by "altruism." It's not what you think it means. Altruism (like many words) has been...

I'm on my phone, so this will be the super abridged / shortened version: 1) Morality is objective. (Objective morality exists.) 2) Morality can be determined by reason. 3) Attacking someone else without justification is always more wrong. (Aggression is irrational) 4) People have the right to...

Rome just adopted Greek intellectualism. Christianities parents were Jerusalem, Antioch, Athens, Alexandria, and Constantinople. Rome just gave us the Catholic Church, which pretty much derailed Christianity for a millennia, and it was only after Rome's power was stripped away that...

Atheistic materialism isn't contagious enough to ever reach critical mass in a society.