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The Catholoic authorities in Holland censored Spinoza several times, sometimes even ahead of time before they had read his new work. Apparently once it was because they heard he had an "irrefutable proof that God didn't exist", which is pretty funny because if true, it would be pointless to censor, and instead you should reorganize society into some kind of Democracy, like Spinoza wanted. But people in charge tend to not want to do that, regardless of the truth. Amazing, I know.

I heard that fact (which is more like a rumor, we hardly know the exact reasons he was censored for the most part, but it was usually along those lines) on Rev Left Radio, which just put out a great episode on Spinoza.

The Catholoic authorities in Holland censored Spinoza several times, sometimes even ahead of time before they had read his new work. Apparently once it was because they heard he had an "irrefutable proof that God didn't exist", which is pretty funny because if true, it would be pointless to censor, and instead you should reorganize society into some kind of Democracy, like Spinoza wanted. But people in charge tend to not want to do that, regardless of the truth. Amazing, I know.

I heard that fact (which is more like a rumor, we hardly know the exact reasons he was censored for the most part, but it was usually along those lines) on Rev Left Radio, which just put out a great episode on Spinoza.