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To: C19fan

episode 1 with zer0 introducing the series, turned me off from the get go.

the first episode with its Catholic bashing from an incident 400 years old(around the time the constitution was written) where Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for supporting geocentrism, ticked me off as there was no caveat about how the RC Church is currently no longer executing nor Luddites.

episode 2 was better...


22 posted on 03/18/2014 7:52:32 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

Even Wikipedia:
“Beginning in 1593, Bruno was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition on charges including denial of the Trinity, denial of the divinity of Christ, denial of virginity of Mary, and denial of Transubstantiation. The Inquisition found him guilty, and in 1600 he was burned at the stake.[5]

After his death he gained considerable fame, particularly among 19th- and early 20th-century commentators who, focusing on his astronomical beliefs, regarded him as a martyr for free thought and modern scientific ideas.[6] However, scholars note that Bruno’s ideas about the universe played a small role in his trial compared to his pantheist beliefs, which differed from the interpretations and scope of God held by the Catholic Church.[7][8]”


56 posted on 03/18/2014 8:33:16 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Vaquero
Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for supporting geocentrism...

No. He was burned at the stake for being a Catholic clergyman who held and taught pantheistic views. People keep wanting to make these issues about science. It wasn't the science part... it was the religious heresy (and teaching others heresy) that warranted eradication.

57 posted on 03/18/2014 8:33:22 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Vaquero
from an incident 400 years old(around the time the constitution was written)

Are you Sheila Jackson Lee?

Everyone knows that Chris wrote the constitution on his ship before landing in 1492...
111 posted on 03/18/2014 11:44:46 AM PDT by Syncro (So? -Andrew Breitbart [1969-2012] RIP King of The New Media)
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