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Fact check: The Inquisition convicted Galileo of heresy, not science fraud
Reading Time: 6 minutes Catholics even today can’t seem to give up the conceit that legendary Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) wasn’t persecuted by the Church in the 17th century for heretical religion but, instead, for bad science. As if. No matter that the Inquisition, the Church’s f
The real meaning behind ‘When in Rome, do as the Romans do’
Reading Time: 5 minutes A few years ago, I watched a documentary about a remote Amazonian tribe whose sexual practices were far different from our own in contemporary, mainstream America. A young indigenous woman on camera described a previously normal practice of her tribe to thoroughly enjoy each