Reply #13: You're wasting your time worrying. I don't trust ANY institution.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

Read THE DEMON HAUNTED WORLD or watch COSMOS by Carl Sagan. He's practically in tears over the destruction of the library at Alexandria in the first episode. The Christians were busy destroying libraries and knowledge in many places.

In Episode III, Sagan points out that Kepler's mother was thrown in jail for being a witch, because she would recite spells and he would write stories about going to the moon. Kepler was the guy who figured out that the planets run in elliptical orbits using Newton's laws.

The Protestants aren't exactly nice to scientists or heresy either.

John Calvin lured Michael Servetus to Geneva, for a debate. He sneaked into the back of a church to hear Calvin preach, was recognized and arrested, and then the local council had him barbecued at the stake.

Michael Servetus was from Transylvania and was the first Unitarian, and a martyr. Barbecued for heresy.

He was also a medical doctor who described the circulation of the blood.