>>20875947Depends. In the Roman empire definitely. Germans for example would kill homosexuals and throw their bodies into a bog. But some Christians did homo stuff as well, so it doesn't really matter. The point is the Church would destroy anything related to paganism and many times that involved philosophical works that described how the world works, including Democritus' theory on atoms, Archimedes palimpsest, etc. They set Europe back in knowledge while mudslimes would turn Baghdad into a center of science and research for hundreds of years until Mongols destroyed it.