Posted on 12/29/2007 8:50:01 AM PST by Alex Murphy
Satan’s ammunition is lies and falsehoods. Those found in your understanding of Galileo for example.
As I understand it, Galileo posited his theories as fact, asserting what could not at the time be proven -- sort of like the Global Warming cabal. His theory about the tides being controlled by the sun didn't work out as well as the other . . .
So you say. Your mind is blinded by the repetitive propaganda you’ve been taught. So, four years later you hunt me down to lay this chestnut on me. Go bother someone else.
I can immediately see the problem here with these three words. Of course you believe it impossible for your church to revise and sugarcoat history so as not to show them in a bad light, so there's not much point in us conversing any more on this, is there? Again, fours later (rolling eyes).
Hunt you down? Wow.
This thread was linked to by a current one, I didn’t notice the date.
If, since then, you’ve corrected the falsehood, I apologize. And my post was unnecessary.
Otherwise...
You can’t just let it rest, can you? The church persecuted an old balding scientist that disagreed with them. Put him under house arrest. The man was a genius in his times, unlike the arrogant bully church who was,not infallible, but WRONG. I don’t care what you or your church thinks. I’m shaking the (proverbial)dust from my keyboard and leave you to your errors. There can be no good come from any further discussion.
Rather than repeat popular secular bosh, you could study the matter a bit more.
A good place to start would be with the idea that Galileo was punished for holding a theory that you seem to think the Church disagreed with. Specifically, heliocentric cosmology. The first to develop this theory, however was not Galileo but Copernicus decades earlier.
Copernicus was not eager to publish, for fear of criticism - religious and otherwise - but the Pope heard of it, and in 1536, Cardinal Nikolaus von Schönberg, Archbishop of Capua, wrote to Copernicus from Rome:
Some years ago word reached me concerning your proficiency, of which everybody constantly spoke. At that time I began to have a very high regard for you... For I had learned that you had not merely mastered the discoveries of the ancient astronomers uncommonly well but had also formulated a new cosmology. In it you maintain that the earth moves; that the sun occupies the lowest, and thus the central, place in the universe... Therefore with the utmost earnestness I entreat you, most learned sir, unless I inconvenience you, to communicate this discovery of yours to scholars, and at the earliest possible moment to send me your writings on the sphere of the universe together with the tables and whatever else you have that is relevant to this subject ...Copernicus subsequently did publish and dedicated his masterpiece to Pope Paul III.
Thus is exposed the lie that "The church persecuted an old balding scientist that disagreed with them."
The real history is much more involved than the farce accepted by materialists and atheists. If you look further, you can find more than secular myths in the story of science and the Church.
Bingo. His observations were as well explained by heliocentricity as the were by the Tychoan theory. It was not until later that heliocentricity moved from theory to fact - based on the science.
Can you believe these papists? years later they just can’t let go of their delusion that God wants a church to beat up, harass and imprison a leading scientist for his views that is absolutely correct. They just don’t get it. Where is THAT message in the teachings of Jesus? They have everything about as backwards as it gets and only get shriller if you try to point out the truth that it is NOT any churchs mission to terrorize and imprison the elderly. No matter what their views. I’ve asked them to let me be, but . . . they listen to that as much as plain facts . . . which is to say not at all.
The obviously didn’t “beat up” Copernicus which is why you want to ignore the FACT that your whole line of trash is based on a lie.
So you think they just stopped at terrorizing and imprisoning him? Is that what you believe? and the Inquisition was just a hayride and ice cream social.
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