Sunday, February 26, 2017

POOR VOLTAIRE WORLD'S GREATIST HISTORIAN HAD TO SUFFER FROM RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION

While writing his dictionary and an encyclopedia Voltaire was hunted down like a dog by a law religion since he researched science and wrote that Earth went around the sun.  But the Vatican hierarchy claimed the sun revolved around Earth.  Copernicus believed same as Voltaire as did Galileo who was actually punished for telling this truth!
So what's new, pussy cat in the world of fear, superstition (original religion) and witchcraft when women were hanged in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1600s under the auspices of the church and preacher Cotton Mather? American bigotry under Puritan law and the Church of England whose members had left to immigrate to colonial America, was fueled by Catholic hierarchial detested hangups carried over to the Protestant Puritan Church where they established a new church in the new world. 
Helene, World Enlightened WENews
author of "The Black Side of Religious Control." an open-eye essay