One can picture a Pharisee questioning Christ in exactly this fashion... And I find the RCC reliance on such to be equally as tiresome. (it's less than 1600 years, btw)
One can also hear tones of what was spoken to Copernicus and Galileo as well...
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“One can also hear tones of what was spoken to Copernicus and Galileo as well...”
What exactly was spoken to Copernicus and Galileo? You see, Copernicus never got in truoble but apparently you think otherwise. Also, Galileo, if your lament is going to be that he was “spoken to” could be said to have gotten in trouble for denying scripture as it was understood in his day and definitely for what we would call today preaching without a license. I think you know less than you realize. Don’t bring up history unless you back it up with SOMETHING.
I mean, I think we all agree that that was not one of our finest hours and all, but don't go for the Classix Comix version, of him studiously dropping balls from the Tower of Pisa and looking through his telescope and publishing his thoughts in Nature like some mild-mannered, absent-minded professor, when suddenly the Vatican Gestapo roaring down the street, their klaxons going BEEE-BAW BEEE-BAW, and clumping up the stairs and haul him off to the Gulag.
(For extra credit, count the anachronisms in this passage.)
It was a tad more nuanced. I hear The Crime of Galileois good and I've never gotten around to reading it.