On Curiosity, Religion, and a Cat

The original article in Hebrew by Oded Livneh can be found here.

It’s time to dispel a common misconception:

The popular expression says that curiosity killed the cat.

Come on! Curiosity has no interest in killing anyone curious, neither the cat nor Galileo. That interest belongs to someone else.

True, the cat was curious, and the church didn’t like it.

The Holy Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church exterminated the cat.
Or maybe it was the Jewish Modesty Patrols.
Or maybe the Islamic jihadists.

Then the religious priests said that curiosity killed the cat. That way they could scare the believers, using the body of a cat. The believers believed and stayed away from curiosity.

The threat of curiosity was removed from religious priests.