05 janeiro 2008

required reading


In this book you will learn:

Why modern science was born in the Catholic Church.
How Catholic priests developed the idea of free-market economics five hundred years before Adam Smith.
How the Catholic Church invented the university.
Why what you know about the Galileo affair is wrong.
How Western law grew out of Church canon law.
How the Church humanized the West by insisting on the sacredness of all human life.

Thomas E. Woods, Jr., How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, Washington: Regnery Publishing Co., 2005.

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