Pope: Read Encyclopedia and You Will Go To Hell (1 Viewer)

[cstu]

The first seven volumes of the Encyclopédie were produced in relative safety, due in part to the support of powerful protectors, notably Madame de Pompadour, but official tolerance came to an end in 1759, when the Encyclopédie was condemned by the Parlement of Paris and placed on the Index librorum prohibitorum by Pope Clement XIII.

The Index Librorum Prohibitorum (English: List of Prohibited Books) was a list of publications deemed heretical, anti-clerical or lascivious, and therefore banned by the Catholic Church.

http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=2876

Yet people still follow this cult.

 

[apalmer]

.5/10

 

[jhib]

Yet people still follow this cult.

Well, what do you want them to do, renounce their citizenship and move to England or something?

 

[Cjw_55106]

I was thinking of becoming Catholic. Thanks for posting this because what they did in 1759 really has swayed me back to my senses.

 

[apalmer]

I was thinking of becoming Catholic. Thanks for posting this because what they did in 1759 really has swayed me back to my senses.

That's why I won't let a doctor treat me--I hear a few hundred years ago they thought bloodletting was an appropriate treatment.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

They allow drinking & gambling so they can't be all bad.

 

[cstu]

I watched a show called "Heroes of the Enlightenment" and this was mentioned when they discussed Diderot's L'Encyclopedie.

Blew my mind that people would continue to follow a religion whose leader said you will burn in hell for reading an encyclopedia.

 

[rockaction]

I watched a show called "The Heroes of Enlightenment" and this was mentioned when they discussed Diderot's L'Encyclopedie.

Blew my mind that people would continue to follow a religion whose leader said you win burn in hell for reading an encyclopedia.

Yeah, but that had heretical thoughts in it. Screw that.

 

[Van Dyman]

I was thinking of becoming Catholic. Thanks for posting this because what they did in 1759 really has swayed me back to my senses.

That's why I won't let a doctor treat me--I hear a few hundred years ago they thought bloodletting was an appropriate treatment.

Hindsight is 20/20