Top panel (crying fedora Wojak): “Christians hate science!”
Glasses Wojak: “So true!”
Bottom panel (two GigaChad priests, cathedral background):
preserved rare books
educated others
still run schools
worldwide
The dichotomy is complete. On one side, the fedora with the internet’s favorite cliche: ‘Christians hate science.’ On the other, two absolute units of clergy in front of a cathedral, listing what the Church actually did with knowledge while the ‘science vs religion’ crowd was still an idea.
Because here’s the thing: for over a thousand years, the people preserving, copying, and translating the world’s knowledge were monks. The scientific method itself was largely developed by churchmen — Gregor Mendel was an Augustinian friar (genetics), Georges Lemaître was a Catholic priest (he proposed the Big Bang theory!), Roger Bacon was a Franciscan friar (empiricism), Nicolaus Steno was a bishop (geology/stratigraphy). The university system exists because cathedral schools and the medieval Church founded them — Bologna, Paris, Oxford, all Church institutions.
The ‘Christians hate science’ meme is the fedora’s comfort food, but the receipts are on the side of the GigaChads. The Church didn’t just tolerate scholarship — it funded it, housed it, and copied it by hand for a thousand years before the printing press existed. The libraries of Europe were monastic libraries.
So sure: Christians hate science. That’s why the Big Bang theory, genetics, the university, and the preservation of classical knowledge all came out of the Church. The fedora is crying, and the priests are still teaching. Worldwide.
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