NEWTON'S FORGOTTEN DISCOVERY - GLOW Tract

Content: Isaac Newton, known for making many groundbreaking discoveries in science, mathematics, and astronomy, is “considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived.”1 Less widely known are Isaac Newton’s discoveries in the areas of religion, including his conclusion that the system manifested by medieval Roman Catholicism was the antichrist power.2 Unlike many of his groundbreaking math and science discoveries, this theory about the Bible’s antichrist was not unique to Newton. Notable others held the same view, such as King James,3 Martin Luther4 (founder of the Lutheran church), John Calvin5 (prominent theologian), John Wycliffe6 (Oxford Professor), Thomas Cranmer7 (Archbishop of Canterbury), John Knox,8 and most of the Protestant reformers.9  Why would Newton and these intelligent men, some of them founders of churches, cast a less than glowing light on an institution that runs orphanages, schools, hospitals