Go to church, by all means. And while you're admiring the fine architecture and the statues of Jesus and Mary and the gang, pause, if you will, and consider the fate of Galileo Galilei, one of the finest minds in Human History and how your Church screwed with his Life for what he believed.
We all know the deal, right? Galileo had ideas about the Universe, being the preeminent scientist of his time. These ideas got him in trouble with the all powerful Catholic Church, who threatened him with torture and imprisonment if he would not recant his ideas. He spent the remainder of his life under house arrest. Like a criminal. For an idea. A ThoughtCrime.
What was the ThoughtCrime? It wasn't even his. Copernicus was the first to propose that it was not in fact the Sun that orbits the Earth but rather the other way around. Copernicus porposed the idea and Galileo proved it and the Church was incensed. Why?
It was contrary to their DAMNED book. That DAMNED book contained scripture about how the earth hung suspended from the heavens and all things orbit around this suspended orb containing God's specialest and noblest of creatures. A patently ridiculous idea given what we now know, but that's how it was written and thus it fell upon the Church to perpetuate the fallacy at all costs. And to punish Galileo for proving the opposite to be true.
This new information was a challenge to the veracity of their DAMNED book. So they stifled and threatened the father of Modern Astronomy, would have branded him a Heretic had he not recanted and would be tortured to be made pure. They laid their well-used devices out for him to see and told him how they would be put to work upon his body and mind.
And the Man recanted.
An agony to a Man of Science, to be forced to deny his own Truth and the Great Work of his Life, but not so bad as the Agonies fortold by the Good Cardinal. Or Bishop. Or whatever the Hell he was calling himself. Damn them. To their own bullshit Hell. No challenges to the Faith will be accepted, not even bonafide Truth and you too will see it that way, my son, my poor lost sheep, or you will be mutilated. You can be made to see the Light, one way or another. That was standard operating procedure for those days.
One wonders what they'd have done to Darwin had they still been in power during his time.
History reveals the Church for what it was, and it's villianous actions against the advance of human knowledge.And that their DAMNED book has already been proven wrong, and will be time and time again. The Writers of that DAMNED Bible wrote checks their butts ultimately couldn't cash the very second they wrote of what is ACTUALLY GOING ON, which is Physics! Which is Science! The how it all works as opposed to who made the thing. Which we'll NEVER KNOW!
Anybody ever stop to think that maybe we shouldn't worry so much about who made the thing and start worrying about how we're treating what He HAS GIVEN US? Like the earth itself, each other and the other creatures that we allow to live around and amongst us. For now.
Ultimately, the Christians came down from atop their High and Mighty horses and issued an apology to the father of Modern Physics for their heinous actions against him and human intellectual endeavor. Know when they did it? What century? Well, he died in 1642, so take a guess...
1996! They apologized in 1996! This from the people who would "turn the other cheek!" Turn the other cheek, MY ARSE!!!!
Okay, so this was hundreds of years ago, SenseChange, we made mistakes as people do, blame not our DAMNED book.
But I DO BLAME YOUR DAMNED BOOK AND I DO BLAME YOU!!! KNOW WHY?!? BECAUSE YOU"RE STILL DOING IT! STANDING IN THE WAY OF HUMAN INTELLECT TO DEFEND YOUR OWN FAITH BY PUSHING YOUR "INTELLIGENT" DESIGN CRAPOLA ON OUR CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS! Believe what you want, but pushing this crap on children is BACKWARDS and RETARDED! LEARN FROM GALILEO AND LEARN FROM HISTORY AND GET OUT OF SCIENCE'S WAY, GET OUT OF THE WAY OF INTELECTUAL ADVANCEMENT, YOUR DAMNED BOOK HAS NO PLACE THERE!
And hey! Spare a thought for Galileo on a Sunday morning, would you?
-SenseChange
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