Billions and billions.
Posted on 03/18/2014 7:36:49 AM PDT by C19fan
On ABC, America’s Funniest Home Videos garnered a 1.4, down 7 percent from a 1.5 adults 18-49 rating for its most recent original.
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Cosmos earned a 1.9 adults 18-49 rating down 10 percent from a 2.1 for last week’s premiere.
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Mrs WBill was excited about it. She came to the same conclusion.
“All because of a TV show. I can’t see this one inspiring kids like that. There was something about Carl Sagan that seems to be missing with Mr. Tyson.”
I said goofy before, but quirky-goofy. Sagan seemed fascinated by the new discoveries that were made possible by better equipment. There are no really new discoveries, just endless empty galaxies. All created, by the way, from a simple collision of a few inert gasses.
This guy is a radical atheist whose only purpose is to try to make people believe that science is something more than people recording observations of things that already exist. And it’s worse because he’s only reporting on observations that someone else made using equipment that someone developed and acting like that makes him exceedingly sciency.
Problems larger than slipping back into cooling when most of the northern hemisphere was covered in ice? More dangerous than short growing seasons and mass starvation? I guess so.
Saw the previews...Never gave it a second look.
“It wasn’t the science part... it was the religious heresy (and teaching others heresy) that warranted eradication.”
Equally disturbing.
Really? Equally? So religion that polices its own with someone who has placed himself under its authority vs religion that kills random citizens because they develop scientific thought are equally disturbing? Ok...
Not disagreeing with you there. Just saying that none of the gas is from carbon based lifeforms. Hence not fossil fuels. It was not stated as fossil fuels. Big difference.
Yes. Religious ‘leaders’ issuing fatwa to kill people for any reason disturbs me.
Your response is the same for both sides of the argument. All religions police their own. Also, during that time you had little choice whether you wanted to be under the churches authority, it was pretty much state sanctioned. So to disagree with doctrine was heresy by default. Not a hard concept.
False.
Also, during that time you had little choice whether you wanted to be under the churches authority, it was pretty much state sanctioned.
We're talking about the latter part of the 16th Century, not the Holy Roman Empire. What was the result of the nailing of the 95 Theses? Schism and fractalization. Clearly, there was some logic to putting down heresy within the ranks. However, there was great diversity of thought in Christendom.
Ironically, it was in the Protestant ranks at this time when you found less religious freedom as German princes staked their claim to age-old heresies as a foundation for their state religions.
So to disagree with doctrine was heresy by default. Not a hard concept.
Since your argument is laughable, it must be a hard concept. Heresy isn't simply disagreement. You make it sound like the average Joe or Mohammed on the street would be tried for heresy for not agreeing with the Church. That isn't how it works. Heresy is the promulgation of parts of the truth to being the whole truth by members in positions of authority. This has been done ad infinitum in the Protestant world as each new disagreement begets a whole new church.
…The first great atheist uprising was the French Revolution, which sought to dethrone God with godless “Reason” and sought to replace the Holy Trinity with the atheist trinity of liberté, egalité et fraternité. The man who is traditionally attributed with coining this triune revolutionary war-cry, which would later be officially adopted as the motto of the French Republic, was Antoine-Francois Momoro, a rabidly anti-Christian radical who advocated the eradication of religion. He played an active and bloodthirsty role in the crushing of the Catholic peasants of the Vendée and was a key figure in the notorious Cult of Reason, an anthropocentric alternative to religion, which effectively enthroned self-worshipping Man as the Lord of the “enlightened” cosmos. In 1793, Momoro supervised the nationally celebrated Fête de la Raison (Festival of Reason) in which his own wife was dressed and paraded as the Goddess of Reason, surrounded by cavorting and costumed women. In a wild and licentious liturgical dance, the Goddess of Reason processed down the aisle of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, surrounded by her female entourage, to a newly-installed altar to Liberty, the Christian altar having been desecrated and removed. All across France, Christian churches were desecrated and re-established as Temples of Reason.The Cult of Reason metamorphosed into the Reign of Terror in which the streets of Paris literally ran red with the blood of its victims. The Goddess of Reason made way for Madame Guillotine who was omnivorous in her bloodlustful appetite, devouring Christians and atheists alike.
Guillotine, Gulag and Gas Chamber: The Glorious Gifts of Atheism to Humanity
Why would I need to have or be reminded of this information?
You don’t - It’s just a good story...
Ok, I can appreciate the occasional random deviation.
“Heresy isn’t simply disagreement.”
Wait a minute. Seriously? You can say that in 21st Century America with a cultural blinder on one eye and a historical one on the other. It was so far from “simple” that religion was the very first thing that the founders wanted to protect both for and from. Heresy was never a “simple” disagreement. It was often a death defying disagreement and it would be a huge mistake to believe that it can’t happen again.
Oops. I read “heresy IS simply disagreement”. My apologies.
Except that it's his wife who wrote it, as well as the original.
-PJ
I had my DVR set to record the series and I was looking forward to watching it (I’m fascinated by astrophysics and cosmology). When it came on and I saw Obama I canceled the DVR recordings, changed the station and will not watch another second of this (I knew what was coming just by the fact that they had to include him).
Accepted, FRiend.
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