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Moostache

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1. Religion...fouling things up for 2500+ years!

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Jul 22, 2019, 10:56 AM

Jul 2019

Even 1,000 years later Galileo suffered much the same fate for similar reasons...boggles the mind to think how far we may have gotten without the control mechanism being use to such great effect for so long...

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An Ancient Greek Philosopher Was Exiled for Claiming the Moon Was a Rock, Not a God [View all] left-of-center2012 Jul 2019 OP

Religion...fouling things up for 2500+ years! Moostache Jul 2019 #1

And you can still be exiled SCantiGOP Jul 2019 #2

Sad but true... Moostache Jul 2019 #3