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Who is more anti science: Protestants or Catholics?

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Catholics, not being anti-science, have an easier time of it. Sure, there are a few wingnuts, but they are often and always dismissed by the larger visible body of Catholics. read more

Protestants are not anti-science as such, either, just as Protestants really aren't anything as such. Protestantism has no governing structure and consequently Protestantism is a much vaguer idea and Protestants as a whole group share a variety of beliefs in which many groups directly contradict each other. read more

Anti-Protestantism originated in a reaction by the Catholic Church against the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. Protestants were denounced as heretics and subject to persecution in those territories, such as Spain, Italy and the Netherlands, by the Inquisition, in which the Catholics were the dominant power. read more

The Catholic Church has always purported a thesis of harmony between Science and Religion, despite the growing trend of conflict being purported between the two. Through Fides et ratio Pope John Paul II reinforced the Church's stance upon the relationship between Science and The Catholic Church. read more

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