Reply #55: Is that really a Christian idea, per se?

[JackRiddler]

Compassion is a universal. As you say, Paulist Christendom lacked for it. The challenge to its tyranny may have come from people who used the Christian rhetoric, but to promote logical, empirically-based and universalist ideas. They wanted to stay off the stake, so they used the Christian rhetoric.

And I'm sure Gutenberg was religious! Please don't confuse "religious" with "clergy"; you can even be clergy and not the least religious.

But agreed on Gutenberg: his achievement set off the whole transformation and led to Galileo and Luther and the Enlightenment and modern nationalism and much else besides, including good and some very, very bad!