> Roman Catholicism attracted the greatest artistic geniuses and inspired them to create masterpiece after masterpiece.
Roman Catholicism created the Dark Ages with its anti-humanist art. The rationally humanist Renaissance of Greek culture inspired the masterpieces you admire. But, yes, that thing to the right of The Pieta is a nihilist attack on man's sacred soul.
Nonsense. The RC Church was a big patron of the arts, & there was a great deal of flowering in many fields. In fact, the Renaissance doesn't happen without the Medieval period. The term "Dark Ages" is anti-Catholic propaganda. To be sure, the current pope seems to be making lots of contributions to the anti-Catholic side.
Correct. The early Ren is itself Catholic in more than name. Petrarch and others were humanists in a very Catholic sense. And numerous other thinkers of the time saw a harmony between faith and reason, and this view persisted throughout even as the more "modern" renaissance thinkers appeared. I
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> Roman Catholicism attracted the greatest artistic geniuses and inspired them to create masterpiece after masterpiece.
Roman Catholicism created the Dark Ages with its anti-humanist art. The rationally humanist Renaissance of Greek culture inspired the masterpieces you admire. But, yes, that thing to the right of The Pieta is a nihilist attack on man's sacred soul.
Nonsense. The RC Church was a big patron of the arts, & there was a great deal of flowering in many fields. In fact, the Renaissance doesn't happen without the Medieval period. The term "Dark Ages" is anti-Catholic propaganda. To be sure, the current pope seems to be making lots of contributions to the anti-Catholic side.
Correct. The early Ren is itself Catholic in more than name. Petrarch and others were humanists in a very Catholic sense. And numerous other thinkers of the time saw a harmony between faith and reason, and this view persisted throughout even as the more "modern" renaissance thinkers appeared. I