pope ratty said: The process against Galileo was reasonable and just."

http://maxblumenthal.blogspot.com/2005/04/gop-flat-earthers-love-grand.html


The GOP Flat-Earthers Love the Grand Inquisitor

Calling Pope Benedict XVI, aka Joseph Ratzinger, a "medievalist" is not just an empty insult. This guy literally believes the Earth is the center of the universe, or perhaps something even crazier. Check out what he said about Galileo in a speech in Parma, Italy, on March 15, 1990:

"At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just."

I guess it's no wonder the flat-earthers in the GOP are so enthused about Ratzi's election.
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the religiously insane are dangerous

THe poor guy just got out a few years ago. Parole is hereby revoked. Bummer.:evilgrin:

Thank you I needed one today, too. It was the periods that got to me.

Talk about slow to change! I've seen glaciers retreat faster than that.

It's hard to admit you've made mistakes.

Sound like anyone else?

The RC church is more accepting of science than almost any other. It has no problem with evolution or cosmology, let alone the heliocentric model of the universe.

If the best example of medeival thinking in the church you can find actually dates to medeival times, well, duh.

Now, exonerating galileo personally, that may have been late, but acceptance of the science was long ago.

Chicago Tribune, Friday, 10/25/96, "POPE BOLSTERS CHURCH SUPPORT FOR EVOLUTION", by Stevenson Swanson, Tribune Staff Writer, Dateline: New York.

"In a major statement of the Roman Catholic Church's position on the theory of evolution, Pope John Paul II has proclaimed that the theory is 'more than just a hypothesis' and that evolution is compatible with Christian faith. In a written message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the pope said the theory of evolution has been buttressed by scientific studies and discoveries since Charles Darwin ... "It is indeed remarkable that this theory has progressively taken root in the minds of researchers following a series of discoveries made in different spheres of knowledge', the pope said in his message Wednesday. 'The convergence, neither sought nor provoked, of results of studies undertaken independently from each other constitutes, in itself, a significant argument in favor of this theory..."


"If taken literally, the Biblical view of the beginning of life and Darwin's scientific view would seem irreconcilable. In Genesis, the creation of the world, and Adam, the first human, took six days. Evolution's process of genetic mutation and natural selection-the survival and proliferation of the fittest new species-has taken billions of years, according to scientists ..."


"The Pope's message went much further in accepting the theory of evolution as a valid explanation of the development of life on Earth, with one major exception: the human soul. 'If the human body has its origin in living material which preexists it, the spiritual soul is immediately created by God', the Pope said."

What a ludicrous thing to say.

saying mere factual innocence is no reason to overturn a death sentence. Birds of a feather...

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Wow I never knew that! :silly:

... that he was an anti-intellectual, and anti-science. Indeed he's regressive and very backward.

Other than Cafeteria-Catholics, how can anyone support or defend him?

NT!

I love that one. We should start calling republicans this.

dang..wow

damn

...on the website of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.



Are these people for real? Sometimes I think this is all a big joke...it has to be.

for instance, this guy:



The guy thinks that the church was right to censure Galileo - he thinks that it was OK for Galileo to say it looks like the Earth goes round the Sun; but Galileo then said the Earth did go round the Sun - and that meant we had to change our philosophy, and even ask if the Bible could have something wrong in it. To the author of the article, this justified putting Galileo under house arrest. And he thinks JP2 was too biased in favour of Galileo.

Yes, there are people still in the Catholic church who are happy that Galileo was persecuted.