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Tank Museum. Wessex Top Attractions. Frome

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Tank Museum. Popular attractions in Wessex, the ancient Saxon kingdom, within a day’s drive of Frome
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Constantine the Great is the emperor who made Christianity the official religion of the Roman empire. He died in the year 335 AD. In the ninth century, the Donation of Constantine suddenly appeared. In it, Constantine, in gratitude for Pope Sylvester’s cure of Constantine’s leprosy, willed to him the entire Western Roman Empire, including Rome. Thereafter, popes used the Donation of Constantine to claim to be the secular rulers of Europe, and, through the Middle Ages, no one doubted the Donation was genuine. Carl Sagan explains:
“Lorenzo of Valla was one of the polymaths of the Italian Renaissance. A controversialist, crusty, critical, arrogant, a pedant, he was attacked by his contemporaries for sacrilege, impudence, temerity and presumption, among other imperfections. After he concluded that the Apostles’ Creed could not, on grammatical grounds, have been written by the twelve apostles, the Inquisition declared him a heretic, and only the intervention of his patron, Alfonso, King of Naples, prevented his immolation. Undeterred, in 1440, he published a treatise demonstrating that the Donation of Constantine is a crude forgery. The language in which it was written was to fourth century court Latin as Cockney was to the King’s English. Because of Lorenzo of Valla, the Roman Catholic Church no longer presses its claim to rule European nations because of the Donation of Constantine.”

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Science requires the most vigorous and uncompromising scepticism, because the vast majority of ideas are simply wrong, and the only way to winnow the wheat from the chaff is by critical experiment and analysis. If you’re open to the point of gullibility and have not a microgram of sceptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the promising ideas from the worthless ones. Uncritically accepting every proffered notion, idea and hypothesis is tantamount to knowing nothing. Ideas contradict one another. Only through sceptical scrutiny can we decide among them.
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