Since 1844 A.D., many thousands of Babis and Baha'is in Persia have suffered cruel deaths for their faith, and many more have borne imprisonment, exile, poverty and degradation.

The latest of the great religions has been "baptized in blood" more than its predecessors, and martyrdoms have continued down to the present day.

With the prophets of science the same thing has happened.
Giordano Bruno was burned as a heretic in 1600 A.D.for teaching, amongst other things, that the earth moved around the sun.

A few years later the veteran philosopher Galileo had to abjure the same doctrine on his knees in order to escape a similar fate.

In later times, Darwin and the pioneers of modern geology were vehemently denounced for daring to dispute the teaching of Holy Write that the world was made in six days, and less than six thousand years ago! The opposition to new scientific truth has not all come from the Church, however.