[Are you serious ? You mean Galilei kept saying that the Earth is the center of the universe and was punished by the Church for that ?]
He was prisoned not because of his ideas--but because he was an agent of the Illuminati. He was activitly involved in malicious attempts to undermind the community, and was punished for it. His personal beliefs that the earth was the center of the universe was proven false by the church.
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In a way, he's almost right (about the "undermining the community" part, not the nonsense about the earth). Contrary to popular belief, what got Galileo in trouble was not claiming as a hypothesis that the earth goes around the sun (Copernicus had already done that a century earlier), but trying to offer scriptural proof. This was during the Reformation, and the Catholic Church didn't want people engaging in "amateur" Bible interpretation. That smacked of Protestantism. Casting his argument in the form of a dialog in which the Pope's geocentric views were placed in the mouth of a character named Simplicio didn't help him, either.
"He was prisoned not because of his ideas--but because he was an agent of the Illuminati."No.
"He was activitly involved in malicious attempts to undermind the community, and was punished for it."
No.
"His personal beliefs that the earth was the center of the universe was proven false by the church."
No.
Is CARM now the world's greatest ignorant, idiot refuge, out-pacing even Rapture Ready and Teens4Christ?
How long till the fundies get it right?
And, btw, AWESOME.
Wow, and here I thought the Illuminati was a group of old guys who got together on Thursday afternoons to shoot pool. But I guess that's what I get, seeing as how the earth REALLY IS flat, not to mention, since the "Church" says that the sky is green and apples grow in sewage, that it MUST be true. Me and my damn logic and reason.
In another 50 or so years, if there are any such zealots left in this world, they'd probablly be whining about how in the old days the church tried so hard to convince people of "evolution" but there were this stupid bunch calling themselves atheists and whatnot who went around saying all humanity came out of Adam Sandler and Eve Lawrence, a couple from Detroit. <sigh> It's just sad. :(
not true he sead this
Funny story. Galileo was punished for saying that Earth isn't
Galileo was the foremost vampire slayer of his time. The Pope was a Vampire and so had the slayer restrained. Galileo during his imprisonment painted the Mona Lisa and the Sistine chapel (two coats) but got no credit for them.
So Galileo was not only wrong, but a member of a group which wouldn't exist until a century later.
Why not say that Galileo was a giant demon who hung out with the Pope and was best friends with him and fought Japanese highschoolers using the power of Heliocentrism and Geocentrism? That makes as much sense.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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