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:The significance of these advances in philosophy is that they broke decisively with the notion of a universe created by the gods [...].  The incompatibility between the divinely created universe of [the Abrahamic] revealed faiths and the mechanistic model of the cosmos, which evolved into the world picture of modern physics and astronomy, predetermined the conflict between religion and science that reached its peak in the late nineteenth century and still echoes in the antagonism between the Judeo-Christian tradition and the secular ideals of the gay liberation movement a hundred years later.

:The significance of these advances in philosophy is that they broke decisively with the notion of a universe created by the gods [...].  The incompatibility between the divinely created universe of [the Abrahamic] revealed faiths and the mechanistic model of the cosmos, which evolved into the world picture of modern physics and astronomy, predetermined the conflict between religion and science that reached its peak in the late nineteenth century and still echoes in the antagonism between the Judeo-Christian tradition and the secular ideals of the gay liberation movement a hundred years later.

I.e. the mechanistic atheistic view of the universe began with pederasts, but its development was impeded by the influence of the Judaeo-Christianity.

I.e. the mechanistic atheistic view of the universe began with pederasts, its development was impeded by the influence of the Judaeo-Christianity, but came into full flower with the growth of the gay liberation movement.

The fact that Aristotle was probably not a pederast is a problem for Percy, but he explains this away by Aristotle's middle-class origins.

The fact that Aristotle was probably not a pederast is a problem for Percy, but he explains this away by Aristotle's middle-class origins.