The Index of Forbidden Books: 400 Years of Church Censorship!

Consider Supporting MindShift -   / mindshiftskeptic   Video's Mentioned: King Ashurbanipal -    • The Destruction of the World's First Great...   Hypatia -    • The Philosopher Erased by Christianity: Th...   Spinoza -    • Spinoza’s God: The Radical Idea We Need To...   Pascal's Wager -    • Pascal’s Wager: Watch This Before You Bet ...   For over 400 years, the Catholic Church kept a list—a blacklist of books so "dangerous" they were banned, burned, and buried. Philosophers, scientists, revolutionaries—anyone who challenged the Church's grip on truth made the Index. But were these books truly evil, or just inconvenient? In this episode, I uncover the forbidden ideas they tried to erase—and why they still matter today. All Books Mentioned (Affiliate Links) Galileo Galilei – Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems - https://amzn.to/43rPGYZ Nicolaus Copernicus – On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres - https://amzn.to/4hGRLnf René Descartes – Meditations on First Philosophy - https://amzn.to/4iHFmkf Martin Luther - The Ninety-Five Theses - https://amzn.to/4l0h9aF Baruch Spinoza – Theological-Political Treatise -https://amzn.to/4j08vXD Giordano Bruno – On the Infinite Universe and Worlds - https://amzn.to/41WG2N3 John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion - https://amzn.to/41M0FLH Voltaire – Candide - https://amzn.to/4hIXJEd Jean-Jacques Rousseau – The Social Contract- https://amzn.to/3DRchE2 Immanuel Kant – Critique of Pure Reason - https://amzn.to/4l5IN5V David Hume – Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion - https://amzn.to/3DWO3Iv John Locke – Two Treatises of Government - https://amzn.to/43WkbGI Victor Hugo – Les Misérables - https://amzn.to/4c1ex88 Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe - https://amzn.to/4hQXBTj Honoré de Balzac – The Human Comedy - https://amzn.to/3FECTZz Jean-Paul Sartre – Existentialism Is a Humanism - https://amzn.to/42a3kOl Machiavelli – The Prince - https://amzn.to/3DWntPI Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust - https://amzn.to/4hKQxHG John Milton – Paradise Lost - https://amzn.to/4cpnjgJ Thomas More – Utopia - https://amzn.to/4c6p4yT Descartes – Discourse on Method - https://amzn.to/3RnSpeE Lucretius – On the Nature of Things - https://amzn.to/41Kl7wp Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote - https://amzn.to/41NfsWz Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan - https://amzn.to/4hKLSFK Sub! → Turn on notifications for 3 new videos every week! Connect! → Email - MindShiftSkeptic@gmail.com Give! → Patreon -   / mindshiftskeptic   📚Recommended Reading For Recent Deconverts (affiliate links): https://www.amazon.com/shop/mindshift... Chapters: 0:00 Forbidden Thoughts 1:43 Agenda 2:09 Why Should We Care? 4:08 Why Did The Ban Happen? 10:19 What Was Banned? 15:48 How It Worked 18:07 The Resistance 20:23 Final Thoughts 23:38 Patron Thanks A sincere thank you to this video's supporters: Supporters Will Not Be Shown On This Episode Due To Book Links #bannedbooks #catholicbannedbooks #atheist #mindshift #atheism #exchristian #christiandeconstruction #deconstructionhelp #counterapologetics