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Truth – a very subjective thing that the majority find hard to accept. Many spend their lives advocating for their beliefs but either get ridiculed or aren’t taken seriously, only to be proven to be correct when it’s way too late. Ever wondered who those people are? Well, today’s your lucky day!

Who are some people who died telling us the truth?” – this netizen took to Reddit, inviting its members to share the names and stories of those who perished in their pursuit of truth. The thread garnered nearly 30K upvotes as well as 5.3K comments.

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Carrie Fisher. She tried exposing Harvey Weinstein long before anyone else did, and was labelled ‘crazy’ because of it. She died about a year before the truth was revealed

unknownselection , Riccardo Ghilardi Report

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Ignaz Semmelweis. The first doctor to implement hand washing in hospitals. It’s saved millions of lives and is the single greatest innovation in medicine.

For his radical theory, that doctors were killing patients by not washing their hands, he was shunned from the medical profession by his peers. The rejection and failure to adopt hand washing drove him mad. His rival took his job and had him sent to the asylum. He died 4 days after being committed, from injuries he sustained from being beaten in the ward.

Years after his death, his theories about hand washing were proven correct. Today he’s known as “the savior of mothers” because he first proved hand washing saved lives by implementing it in the birthing ward, where 1 in 4 women died at the hospital during birth. This was because doctors would handle cadavers and then immediately attend to birthing mothers, infecting them. After hand washing was implemented, the rate of death for birthing mothers dropped to less than 5%.

itscomplicatedwcarbs , wellcomecollection Report

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Heather Resatz
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What a hero!! If karma is a thing then this guy has come back as something wonderful .. perhaps my beloved doggo!!

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online There was a shunned Japanese politician who had spent a lot of his town's budget on building a tsunami wall that was built higher than any tsunami ever recorded in the area. Almost all people in that town cursed him for wasting their money until his death.. Then came the big 2011 triple disaster in Japan. No one from the town died thanks to the barrier which withheld the biggest tsunami to ever hit.

gtr06 , Ray Bilcliff Report

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Sophie Scholl was a German student and anti-[war] political activist. She was born on May 9, 1921, in Forchtenberg, Germany. In 1942, Sophie and her brother Hans co-founded the White Rose, a non-violent resistance group that opposed the regime. The group distributed leaflets calling for passive resistance to the government and urging Germans to rise up against the regime.

On February 18, 1943, Sophie and Hans were arrested by the Gestapo while distributing leaflets at the University of Munich. They were interrogated and sentenced to death by the People's Court on February 22, 1943. On the same day, Sophie, Hans, and their friend Christoph Probst were executed by guillotine.

Sophie's final words were "Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?" Her courage and commitment to justice have since inspired countless people around the world.

hostilecircus , Figurator Report

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online The Idaho cult Mom, Lori Vallow's husband, Charles. Not only did he know she was going to kill him but he also knew the kids were in danger and begged the police to address the fact that she was clearly not mentally stable. He finally got the police to require a mental health exam for her but there's audio of the police officers telling her how to pass it and treating her like a victim of her husband. The audio of him talking to the police is really depressing... guy is just begging them for help and they basically patted him on the head.

He was right and now he's dead and so are those poor kids. Really depressing case.

littleirishpixie , kat wilcox Report

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Dr. Li was widely regarded in China as a heroic truth-teller. He had been punished by the authorities for trying to warn others about the virus, and then, in a terrible turn, had become severely sickened by it. Weeks later, he would become China’s most famous fatality of the emerging pandemic. He was 34. -The New York Times about COVID-19

ChocolateOrnery3260 , Karolina Grabowska Report

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online John O'Neill, headed the investigation of the attack on the USS Cole. Warned FBI about Al Qaeda and Bin Laden. Was basically told to shut up. Left the FBI to head security at the World Trade Center because he knew there would be another attack there eventually after the first car bombing in the parking ramp.

He died on 911.

MNConcerto , Pixabay Report

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Martha Mitchell. Blew the whistle on Watergate only to be gaslit and accused of being a mentally unstable alcoholic by her husband, political cronies, and even her own kids.

RumBunBun , Collection - Carol Highsmith, Library of Congress Collection Report

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Panda Kicki
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I never heard of her. Poor woman, she was brave, kidnapped and abused by her husbands goons.

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online The poor Kurdish girl in Iran who was killed because she chose not to wear her hijab the "right" way.

imgrandojjo , Gül Işık Report

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Kathryn Baylis
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mahsa Amini. Arrested by the “ morality police” because some of her hair was showing from under her hijab. They denied beating her, and lied that she died from a heart attack. She was 22, ffs. She died from the beating(s). She should never have been there. The point of the hijab is to cover the hair, because the sight of it would be too tempting for men. ANOTHER b******t law put in place to punish women because goddamned MEN just can’t man up and control themselves. Bastards.

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Bob Ebeling. Him and 4 other engineers told NASA to delay the Challenger mission.

Most of us know what happened on January 28th 1986.

Bunnuh77 , Chad Davis Report

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tabithapaquette98
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in Cape Canaveral and I will never forget that day. For Florida, it was very cold. I didn't have to go to school that day because I had a dentist appointment. It was horrible!

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Nicole Brown Simpson. She told her friends and the police that OJ would kill her and get away with it.

TheSocialABALady , Brett Sayles Report

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Kathryn Baylis
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

F*****g LISTEN to us when we tell you things like this! It’s in your head if you don’t and we end up murdered. Hope the guilt just eats you up inside, a******s.

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Caruana Galizia
The journalist who broke the story about the Panama papers.

skydvr44 , Continentaleurope Report

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Tim Nicebutdim
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She was more than the Panama papers, she was trying to expose how rotten the Maltese politicians were/are. The EU always seems to turn a blind eye to it to. The makeshift monument to her in Valletta catches you unaware when stumble across it but you know damn well who it's for. Cowardly ****s.

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Tesla. He died single in a hotel in NYC. He said all this life he had been working to improve society and people, but was always laughed at. I guess with him now famous, he is laughing last.

dsvoboda080182 , GDJ Report

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Brenda
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tesla had many ideas stolen simply because he didn't patent them. Edison was a true ba$tard, not just to Tesla either

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Sergei Magnitsky, whistleblower of corruption in the Russian government including human rights violations and strong opponent of Vladimir Putin. While in prison he died one week before his court date to testify from what was originally deemed malnourishment and an untreated heart condition with medical neglect. An investigation later found that he had been severely assaulted shortly before his death.

NsaAgent25 , Darya Sannikova Report

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David H
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Russia has a history of whisterblowers and journalists critial of the leadership dying under mysterious circumstances. Sometimes even suicide by 10 bullets to the back of the head before jumping off buildings.

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Marie Curie

To quote the Fact Sphere from Portal 2: “Marie Curie invented the theory of radioactivity, the treatment of radioactivity, and dying of radioactivity.”

And the follow up on the Portal wiki: Marie Curie technically only discovered dying of radioactivity.

buttercupgirl16 , Unknown author Report

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Karen Silkwood. From Wikipedia:

>Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was an American chemical technician and labor union activist known for raising concerns about corporate practices related to health and safety in a nuclear facility.

>After testifying to the Atomic Energy Commission about her concerns, she was found to have plutonium contamination on her body and in her home. While driving to meet with a New York Times journalist and an official of her union's national office, she died in a car crash under unclear circumstances.

[Link to Wikipedia entry on Karen Silkwood.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood)

sucrose_97 , Chokniti Khongchum Report

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Scientists Executed by the Catholic Church

1. Hypatia
Hypatia was a pagan philosopher in late 4th century Alexandria. She appears to have been a lecturer in Platonic thought, a practicing scientist, and the author of several mathematical treatises. She was killed by a Christian mob in the year 415.

2. Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon (1220-1292) was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who is was a talented natural scientist and is considered one of the pioneers of the "scientific method" and was noted for his use of empirical observation. His greatest work was the Opus Major, which contains treatments of mathematics, optics, alchemy, and astronomy, including theories on the positions and sizes of the celestial bodies. Bacon appears to have been imprisoned by the ecclesiastical authorities sometime around 1279 and may have died in captivity.

3. Pietro d' Abano
Pietro d' Abano (1257-1316) was an Italian philosopher, astrologer, and professor of medicine. He was a noted author whose most famous work was Conciliator Differentiarum, quæ inter Philosophos et Medicos Versantur, an exploration on the relationship between contemporary medical theories and Aristotelian natural philosophy. He was arrested by the Inquisition and died in prison around 1316. He was condemned posthumously and his bones burned.

4. Cecco d' Ascoli
Cecco d' Ascoli (1257-1327) was an Italian encyclopaedist, physician, and scholar specializing in mathematics and astronomy. He was a professor of astronomy at the University of Bologna and was such a noted astronomer that there is a crater on the moon named after him. He is famous for his feud with the poet Dante. He was eventually tried for heresy and burned at the stake in Florence, the first university professor to be condemned to death by the Inquisition.

5. Michael Servetus
Michael Servetus (1509-1553), usually known simply as Servetus, was a Spanish doctor, theologian, mapmaker, and Humanist scholar. His expertise spanned many areas; he wrote treatises in mathematics, astronomy, meteorology, geography, human anatomy, medicine and pharmacology, as well as jurisprudence and poetry. In 1553 he was tried and sentenced to death in Vienna by the Inquisition, though it would ultimately be the Calvinists who put him to death in Geneva later that year.

6. Girolamo Cardano
Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576) was a Renaissance polymath whose talents ranged from mathematics to medicine, biology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, philosophy, and linguistics. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance, and was one of the key figures in the foundation of probability and the earliest user of the binomial coefficients and the binomial theorem in the west. He wrote over 200 scientific treatises.He was arrested and condemned by the Inquisition and spent several years imprisoned, though he was eventually released and rehabilitated by Pope Gregory XIII. He is famous for his contributions to algebra and made the first systematic use of negative numbers.

7. Giordano Bruno
Bruno is among the most famous scientists ever to run afoul of the Inquisition. Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was a Dominican friar, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He is most remembered for his cosmological theories. After seven years of trials in Rome, he was condemned and burned at the stake in 1600.

8. Lucilio Vanini
Philosopher and physician Lucilio Vanini (1585-1616) was a Carmelite and noted late Renaissance scholar. He was a libertine, political opponent of the popes, and known as an early proponent of some form of evolution from primates. He once left the Church for Anglicanism but later returned to the faith. He went through a period of itinerant wandering, where he seemed to always get in trouble with the authorities. He eventually adopted a false identity and died under circumstances that are still uncertain in 1619, executed for blasphemy and heresy by the authorities in Toulouse. He was strangled, had his tongue removed, and his body burned.

9. Tommaso Campanella
The Dominican friar Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) was an Italian astrologer, philosopher, and poet. Early in his clerical career he became disenchanted with Aristotelian thought and became a proponent of the new empiricism. He was briefly imprisoned by the Inquisition for engaging in wild astrological speculation. He was released but was apprehended in Calabria, tortured, and spent twenty-six years in prison. He was later released to be part of the court of Pope Urban VIII and had some remote involvement in the Galileo affair. Despite his age, he again got in trouble and had to go into exile to the court of Louis XIII of France, where he died in 1639.

10. Kazimierz Lyszczynsk
Kazimierz Lyszczynsk (1634-1689) is different than the rest of the people we have examined in that he did not have a reputation as a scientist. He was a Polish soldier and nobleman, but also an amateur scholar and philosopher. Lyszczynsk was educated by the Jesuits but later became an opponent of the Society, whom he later opposed as a judge in several cases against the Jesuits concerning ownership of estates. He was arrested and charged with atheism and blasphemy based on an allegedly atheist manuscript he had written entitled "On the Non-Existence of God." He was condemned and beheaded in 1689 after having his tongue tore out and hands burned.

apeelvis , Julius Kronberg Report

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Kathryn Baylis
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. Religion has always wrongfully punished and murdered people who were right when the church was wrong. So the b******t the evangelicals are pulling today is just the same old same old. You see, when you deny and fight against science and learning and moving forward, you end up repeating the same dead wrong b******t, making the same mistakes, and provoking the same pointless and unnecessary violence, over and over. We need to work on breaking that destructive cycle, once and for all.

Spack225
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You do realize that everyone practices religion in one form or another. It was not the religious standards that put these people to death but rather the sinful hearts of man. This heart still infects everyone of us and is still being used to justify wicked actions against one’s enemies. Just because someone doesn’t follow a formal religion doesn’t make them free from the actual cause of this evil.

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Michelle C
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Faith isn’t the problem; men like those who insisted they should be right at the cost of other human lives were! Much of my family is devotedly Catholic or some offshoot thereof and even they will admit how woefully wrong the leadership has been at times like these!

Bernd Herbert
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I disagree, faith is very often the core of the problem. Especially When it contradicts with facts and science. People will (violently) defend their faith, no matter what. Never saw that about science? There are no wars in the name of science, not one is killed for disagreeing with a scienrif theory. Women or non-scientists are not discriminated against in the name of science.

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𝖊𝖜𝖔𝛋
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This makes me so cross, yet more people using religion as an excuse to persecute and push their own agenda. History is full of tragic examples of this. There are countless references in the Bible to the stars and how marvellous they are, why were people punished for studying what the Bible alleges is God’s creation? The very people who should know better who profess to be experts don’t know a damned thing about it

john s
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hypatia was flayed alive, ripped apart by a Christian mob incensed that a woman would be publicly, technically academic. This is when Christianity as a sect was starting. Sounds a lot like the brownshirts, doesn't it?

Mary Reeves
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Catholic Church is guilty of so many atrocities, too many to count.

Jaguarundi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Although these people were brutally "unalived" or condemned centuries ago, we are still aware of them and their works. It would seem that like Nature, History or Science will find a way. I wonder how different the world would be today if the world's religions were never invented and people were allowed to teach and learn freely, without radical's interventions.

Colleen Glim
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think religion started as a way for humanity to explain what they didn’t understand. The more we come to understand the world around us, the less important religion becomes

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Jes R.
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good 'ol Christianity. Doing it's best to stifle human progression in the western world for almost 1,500 years. But instead of learning from this, the extremeists just keep denying science and fearing anything different than what they have been told is "right".

Niki A
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The problem here isn't religion itself, it's the motives and lies behind it all. Frankly, the Catholic Church knew it was peddling b******t ideas, but how else are you going to keep control over people? You tell them God doesn't approve and you'll go to hell, and eventually they pass it down the generations. The next thing you know, it's a way of thinking and a way of life/culture. The religious ideas used to execute power eventually become the basis for ignorance and stagnation.

Analyn Lahr
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think I have an idea of how to pronounce number 10's first name but how do you pronounce his last name?

Kevin J. Henning
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I seem to remember some christian reformers being executed and or tortured as well by the established church as well. Anyone suspected of posing a threat to any established system would be in for the same treatment.

Sillypants
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And we're still murdering people for different beliefs. Ahhhh humans, we're all trash.

Bernd Herbert
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you for that lists and a constant reminder of the score between science and religion. Ever noticed that it never happened, that somebody would say:“hey, interesting theory science. But it turns out you’re wrong, the story of my religion is actually the right one to describe that phenomenon!“ never happened. Ever.

Niall Mac Iomera
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How much more advanced would our society be if we weren't continually held back by religion?

Vicki Perizzolo
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

a massive reason to condemn ALL organized religions as defective 'in their face'

Turnip and a Frog
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lyszczynski, with an “i” at he end. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz_Łyszczyński

Bill Marsano
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The fundamentalist sect of every religion I can think of does this.

Veronica Jean
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is actually true of people in general. Case and point: did you know there was a time when most of Europe regarded ALL Italians or people who even spent time in Italy as witches and wizards because Italy was simply bursting with Renaissance talent? The amount of advancements in every field that came out of Italy actually scared all of Europe universally. People are afraid of change. They looked to the church at the time for comfort and to hold back the things that they were afraid of, but keep in mind this was also at a time when people couldn't read their own Bible. They could not make their own educated decisions of what a relationship with God actually looks like. They could not read about God's love or forgiveness or the actual scientific facts that he speaks about. In fact a lot of the scientific elements presented in the Bible would have received severe backlash from the Catholic Church if spoken aloud at that time. Ignorance will always be here.

Gypsy Lee
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

America 2023. tRump touts a religion he doesn’t believe in and silences scientists during a global pandemic. History repeats.

Hobby Hopper
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I really like that painting of Hypatia in what I assume is Alexandria. The architecture looks very Grecian. Is that really what it looked like there in the 5th century? (edit: corrected century)

Cydney Golden
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Christians have always had problems with those who disagree, as do most religious cults.

Georgina Lenna
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The execution of Ypatia is laid on the doorstep of the Orthodox Church. Athanasius, later canonized as saint, was the brain behind the mob

Alexander Elliott
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hypatia was a heathen and murdered on the orders and its more closer to rejection over another philosopher. Bruno was in effect a modern believer in reincarnation and was tried by the Inquisition acting separating from the Church

Violet Bunny
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you for posting this. It explains why I quit going to church. I refuse to support such a corrupt organization.

Bryn
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

these are interesting, but i don't think they really fit the bill...

Cristi nah
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Miguel Servet, he discovered the pulmonary circulation, Giordano Bruno said that the stars would be other suns with their own planetary sistems

Zack Vander
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Organized religion, especially Christianity, should be wiped off the face of the planet.

Simon Bolivar
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looking at the original "Index Librorum Prohibitorum" pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the R.C. church.

Mondo Cane
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hey, but at least the Catholic Curch admits the scientists were right and apologises.... 300 years later

My “in my head” Voice
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, sorry, I nope out when it gets that long. I don't go on BP for diatribes and rants.

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online That guy who got crushed to death with rocks in the Salem trials. Giles Corey, I believe.

IvyHav3n , Joy Marino Report

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He was accused of witchcraft and refused to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty, even as heavier and heavier stones were placed upon his chest to try to torture a plea out of him. After three days, he died from the torture, but because he never entered a plea his estate was passed to his sons-in-law rather than seized by the government.

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Bud Dwyer. He was a politician in Pennsylvania in the 1980s and he was accused of accepting bribes. He denied it but he and his family were receiving tons of hate from people to the point in which he called for a public announcement with news cameras and such.

He took a gun out of an envelope and put it in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Local news outlets now had video of a politician killing himself.

Years later it was learned that he *really didn’t* accept bribes.

vidgmchtr , Caleb Oquendo Report

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Not exactly killed directly, but still punished severely: Galileo.

Killed: Socrates

dodexahedron , CherryX Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now, to be fair, the Catholic Church recently apologized to Galileo, and admitted he was right. So we're all good now, yes?

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Dr David Kelly, exposed the lies about WMDs then “[unalived himself]”. It was just a coincidence that the government refused to open an enquiry into his death, who needs to investigate a “self-unaliving”

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Alberto Nisman

He was a prosecutor investigating the President of Argentina at the time, Cristina Fernandez de Kirshner. Wound up doing the ol' Epstein and [ended his life]. In the waste basket next to where he was found, there was a draft for an arrest warrant for the president.

MongooseProXC , Sora Shimazaki Report

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ConstantlyJon
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The ol' Epstein??? yeesh. Way to make someone ending their life sound even worse than it already does.

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online Obviously Oscar Wilde, "Either those curtains go or I do."

gildorratner , janeb13 Report

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Con O Cuinn
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And we're at the point where the current title no longer makes sense. "25 Truth Advocates Who Passed Away Before Getting Recognition, As Shared Online"

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24 Truths Nobody Believed Until After The Truthsayers’ Deaths, As Shared Online heyitsEnricoPallazzo said:

Pat Tillman

who519 responded:

One of the greatest tragedies of the last 20 years. If he had survived he would have been an incredible anti-war voice and potentially a masterful politician. The dude was smart as hell, tough as hell and compassionate as hell. Not many people fit that mold on this Earth.

Edit: If you haven't read "Where Men Win Glory" by Krakauer it is a great look into this imperfect hero's life and the mythos that has drawn young brave men into war for millennia.

TrooperJohn added:

Which is exactly why he was eliminated.

A young, white, handsome pro athlete turned military hero coming back home to tell Americans the entire war was a big lie? There's no way that would have been allowed.

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Yoyo
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Omg BP, do we have to google everything ourselves?? This doesn't even mention what he did!!

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