You seem to fancy yourself a Master Inquisitor, but we have left the Inquisition far behind, knowing it to be an abomination in the eyes of God. Therefore, being bereft of authority, why should your theological queries excite my notice?
I respect my Christian brethren. I listen to them in the knowledge that each of them seeks to know God out of the love that is in their hearts and that they have insights that may benefit me. I will not presume to instruct them in what they must believe or not believe. I seldom burden others with my theological thoughts because I know them to be unworthy of anything more than a most brief and occasional mention. I take no note of your theological rants because I understand them to be the product of a heart filled with malice.
I don’t know when it is that you think science first “contradicted” the Bible, so I cannot say when there prevailed such a constricted vision of Scripture as yours. But as early as the Thirteenth Century Thomas Aquinas set the table for a superior understanding of scripture (“Since therefore falsehood alone is contrary to truth, it is impossible for the truth of faith to be contrary to principles known by natural reason.”) I cannot recall a time when I held any other view than the above (and that’s going back to the war years, long before I had ever heard of someone named Thomas Aquinas).
But as early as the Thirteenth Century Thomas Aquinas set the table for a superior understanding of scripture (“Since therefore falsehood alone is contrary to truth, it is impossible for the truth of faith to be contrary to principles known by natural reason.”)
***Worth repeating.
Congratulations! I knew you would bring up Aquinas. He was one of the first scientific thinkers. That's why he had to turn himself inside out to reconcile the scriptures with logic and the observable universe. The Church has spent 2000 years covering the intellectual potholes in parts of the Bible. Aquinas was the best at it. I love Tommy.
Scaredy cat!