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>> So maybe the Catholic Church had a point

Is that really the take-away? If the Catholic Church had not been so belligerent, those wars would not have been needed. Now that we are past that time, we should surely be thanking those combatants who helped disseminate knowledge in spite of the Church whose interest was in hoarding it.

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I think that's a pretty bad reading of history frankly. The Church didn't hoard knowledge, in fact they were arguably the primary preservers of knowledge and disseminator of it, through the monastic tradition in Medieval Europe. Many thousands of which were destroyed during the religious wars, which is a common theme as far sectarian wars go. They are first and foremost destroyers of knowledge.

More importantly I certainly wouldn't want to live through that period for any reason, and much less repeat it. If an ordinary printing press caused that much chaos I'm not sure I want to figure out what one on steroids is going to do

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