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It Was Bound To Happen, I Suppose

By Brian Filed in Atheism/Religion, Links, Science Tagged with Catholic wackos, Copernicus, Galileo, geocentrism, heliocentrism, Roman Catholic Church July 21st, 2011 @ 11:32 am

We’ve got climate change deniers.

We’ve got evolution deniers.

There’s even a Flat Earth Society.

So it really was just a matter of time before somebody got around to being heliocentrism deniers. A group of conservative Catholics (big surprise there) in Chicago are actively promoting a return to the pre-Copernican theory that the Earth is the center of the universe and that the Sun and all the other objects in the sky revolve around us rather than the Earth being a planet that orbits the Sun. It bears mentioning that the Vatican doesn’t support these guys and that they’ve been good with the theory of heliocentrism since the 18th Century. Heck, they even apologized to Galileo (sort of) back in 1992, although that statue of him they wanted to put up never happened.

Psst…Richard Sungenis…Eppur si muove

Number Eleven With A Bullet

By Brian Filed in Links Tagged with "Top Ten Worst Popes", Galileo, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic Church January 9th, 2009 @ 12:55 pm

Unwilling to take his hand-tailored Italian slipper out of his mouth even for Christmas, That Darn Ratzi managed to say that homosexuality was a bigger threat to the world than global warming, and that the “blurring of genders” was a danger to us all. Apparently the tranny priest standing next to him did not get the memo BEFORE the press conference, as he is wearing one of his lacy unmentionables on top of his bright red dress.

Meanwhile, he’s STILL pissing off the scientific community by trying to “rehabilitate” Galileo by “forgiving” him for his “crimes”. The Vatican has finally scrapped plans to co-opt Galileo by putting up a statue of him, but their party line is still based on the “you can be a scientist AND a Catholic” argument, even though it’s generally recognized that a majority of scientists either consider themselves atheists or express “no religious preference”. At any rate, the statue had people on both sides of that argument pretty steamed.

Apparently, though, That Darn Ratzi is a piker compared to his illustrious forebears. There have been 265 popes from St. Peter up to Herman The German, and today Oddee has a “Top Ten Worst Popes” list to help you understand why today’s Catholics think Ratzi’s not so bad.

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By Brian Filed in Links, News Tagged with Galileo, Harry Potter, L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic Church January 18th, 2008 @ 2:07 pm

Galileo At The Inquisition

Oh, that wacky Papa Ratzi. Always looking for someone else to piss off. Now he’s got a group of faculty members at an Italian university upset about him coming to speak there and he’s actually cancelled the visit rather than make the situation any worse.

What are the professors mad about? Their particular gripe is that back when he was just plain old Cardinal Ratzi, he made some remarks to the extent that Galileo got what he deserved when he was imprisoned by the Pope for claiming that the Earth revolves around the sun and not vice versa. Science, says the Vicar of Christ, should be serving the search for truth as it relates to “knowing God”, sounding more than a little like that Huckabee fellow. In his earlier speech, he even goes so far as to say that maybe Galileo was wrong and that the heliocentric view of the solar system isn’t really the way the solar system works, it’s just convenient for scientists to explain other phenomena. You know, the same way the Creationists like to say that evolution is “just a theory”.

Meanwhile, since aggravating a handful of cranky Italian science professors isn’t much more than an afternoon’s diversion at The Vatican, L’Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper (and home to one Father Guido Sarducci) felt the need to condemn the Harry Potter books for promoting witchcraft, superstition, and the occult. This from a religious organization that actively promotes such mumbo-jumbo as transubstantiation, the virgin birth, and the “miracles of the saints”. Maybe they just don’t like anyone horning in on their action.

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