Not much revolutionary or counter-revolutionary terror, no death camps, comparatively little secret police.
What exactly was the war on heresy?
The high and mighty being content with merely existing at the top of traditional "divinely ordained" hierarchy
Peasant revolts based on oppressive governance costs didn't happen?
If we don't count the denial of a glimpse of hope to "whole classes and races" (and genders) of people, then most of what I personally don't approve of in the time period drops out. But even if that isn't included in the ledger, it wasn't all that great for the vast majority of white Christian men.
What exactly was the war on heresy?
You mean then, or now?
Remember what happened to Larry Summers at Harvard when he merely asked the question?
Does the phrase "Denier" cause any mental associations that weren't there in the late 90s?
At least Copernicus was allowed to recant and live his declining years in (relative) peace.
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