... with devotion to God. The Roman Christian church was eager to bring ever larger numbers into its confessionals, and Aquinas' treatises appeared to offer a nearly unlimited resource of sinners. Aquinas' works became Catholic dogma which survived with little change into the Twenty- first Century. By aggressively preaching a divine edict to renounce the fundamental instinct to seek pleasure, the Roman Christian church ... to reject scientific discoveries of the Renaissance which denied humans of this exalted cosmic address. In the early Sixteenth Century, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Mikolaj...

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