Women, Science, Religion

Alan: Just a couple hundred years ago, Christendom's Ideal Woman was a cloistered nun as hermetically "sealed off" by walls-and-robes as a contemporary Islamic woman wearing hijab and living in harem.

Like it or not, the choice is increasingly between scientific openness and "religious" enclosure.

Just 190 years ago...

The Inquisition Executed Its Last Victim In 1826, A Spaniard Who Taught Deism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-inquisition-executed-its-last.html