-Manschreck, Clyde. A History of Christianity in the World. Second Edition. Prentice-Hall, Englewood, NJ, 1985, pages 133, 205.
-Strobel, Lee. The Case for a Creator. Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI, 2006, pages 162-163.
-Collins, Francis. The Language of God. Free Press, New York, NY, 2006, pages 153-156.
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I understood that he was a poor boy from a poor family.
This should probably be in Religion. But thank God you’re here to explain to all of us how wrong history is.
“In 1633, Galileo was tried before the Roman Inquisition. He was ordered to “abjure, curse, and detest” his life’s work. His publications were banned and he was placed under house arrest. While this is certainly unfortunate”
Unfortunate? Baloney.. The idea of a church, conducting a trail and placing him under house arrest is what people are generally disgusted by.
There are all kinds of games to evade responsibility, but yes, the Church was despotic at that time. Bur it was hundreds of years ago, so it is the worst kind of apologetics to “unpack” it and pretend that it really wasn’t that bad.
If Galileo would have had a Glock, he would have been fully justified in producing it and shooting his way out of the room.
Galileo was a brilliant man. He would never have cheapened a discussion by using "unpack" in a rhetorical context.
Galileo was a back-stabbing asshole who got what he deserved.
Some Smart Aleck,
Spelling Cop or
Punctuation Police.
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Ya done good,FRiend!
There is no biblical or Christ based defense of what they did to him ***400 years ago!*** Better that they should just own it and emphatically say today’s Roman church wouldn’t do that. I see no need to apologize, though JPII already basically did. Galileo is long gone, and so are the thugs who tried him.
Then I would point out Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian Priest who was responsible for the big bang theory. I would direct further inquiries to the Vatican observatory in Arizona.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Advanced_Technology_Telescope
The modern Roman church’s actual activity regarding science today is the best apology Galileo would have ever asked for. That mean’s far more than some farcical apology. I’d bet a paycheck on it.
No one tried to claim that Gallileo was an atheist when I was in school. As a matter of fact, I’ve never heard anyone try to characterize him as such, much less that he is some icon for atheism. Sounds like a straw man.
The biblical roots of Galileo's name and surname were to become the subject of a famous pun.[27] In 1614, during the Galileo affair, one of Galileo's opponents, the Dominican priest Tommaso Caccini, delivered against Galileo a controversial and influential sermon. In it he made a point of quoting Acts 1:11, "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?". Wiki
Galilee is "galil", the Hebrew word for a cylinder. The root is all about revelation (unrolling) and rolling, circular motion and so forth.
Galileo was famous for his cylinder:
Galileo noted that the revolution of the satellites of Jupiter, the phases of Venus, rotation of the Sun and the tilted path its spots followed for part of the year pointed to the validity of the sun-centered Copernican system over other Earth-centered systems such as the one proposed by Ptolemy. Galileo's instrument was the first to be given the name "telescope". Wiki
Galileo was born in Pisa, the town whose symbol is the leaning cylinder.
Divine order of the universe:
"How if I just leave this here."
I saw Galileo’s finger preserved in a jar in Florence (Italy, not SC).
The Heliocentric solar system was discovered by Aristarchos in 200BC. Copernicus and Galileo only made it popular in the Renaissance.
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter....
I am not impressed by this piece. Anyone who doesn’t know who Galileo was and can’t keep him straight from Giordano Bruno who actually was burned at the stake isn’t qualified to say anything about the true story of anybody. And secondly it’s been 600 years so most of it is hearsay and not admissible in court. And thirdly it resembles a huge wall of words which you can’t be sure are even true since a glaring error in the very beginning throws off any sense of credibility. And it’s too long. And we know how bad Trump is but let’s stick to his deeds and not the words he is quoted as saying. Same with Galileo.
Just to be clear, the center of the universe is precisely where I am at any given moment. Thank you.
Galileo merely used existing tech (lenses) to recreate something that had long been in use - the telescope which dates back at least to Greek times possibly to Old Kingdom Egypt.
His actual crime was speaking out in a time when the Church was vehemently anti-science and had a vested interest in its particular meme of the Universe.
You start out with a false statement. He was never burned. Not even a little bit.
He was imprisoned, and then given house arrest.
“Since these scriptures are in poetic books, Christians today have no trouble interpreting them as mere expressions by ancient people with limited knowledge of the cosmos”
Christians today have been blinded. The Bible is a flat earth book from Genesis to Revelation.