Crossbows, suicide bombers and Popes
<Crossbows and suicide bombers
Years ago in a Scientific Americal article on "Crossbows" I read a longer version of what the Popes had to say about the crossbow. It could have been describing nuclear weapons.
“In 1097, Pope Urban II outlawed the use of the crossbow. Four decades later, Pope Innocent II convened a Lateran Council with nearly 1,000 prelates. They forbade "under penalty of anathema" not just the use of crossbows, "the dastard's weapon," but the entire "deadly and God-detested art of slingers and archers." You could get a waiver if you were on a crusade, but that's a different conversation.”
Arf