Posted on 03/10/2014 7:42:21 PM PDT by lbryce
Ticked me off. First, they started with he who shall not be named (the community organizer) making a comment. Then of course the constant evil ignorant Christian bashing.
There was a least a ten minute cartoon segment when evil men with big crosses on their hats chased this freedom loving guy (Giordano Bruno) tortured him, and burnt him because he insisted the universe was infinite and the earth went around the sun. You know, I guess if you repeat a lie enough times people believe it.
Now granted, the Catholic church at the time was not a beacon of free and independent religious thought, but the reason Bruno ran into trouble was NOT his scientific ideas but because he ran around insisting that Christ was just a magician and other strange doctrine. He was on the Catholic church’s territory there, which is not wise. I mean, go over to Iran and try lecturing them nowadays about how Mohammed was just a magician and see where you end up. The show so totally misrepresented the facts I have to believe they had bad intent.
The idea that Galileo and Bruno and such were mostly persecuted because of their earth centric theories is not so. They got into trouble because they liked to make trouble by getting into personal scraps with powerful people (like the Pope) and arguing doctrine. It’s all revisionist history.
As posted to an earlier post:
Once the show got into the cartoon characters, I realized this is going to seriously suck.
I wondered why Zer0 would put his name on it!
But, then I realized that the recent poll, where 25% of Americans believe that the Sun revolves around the Earth;
and Bingo, we struck the Zer0 voting base; thus his pie-hole at the beginning and the cartoons!
A show directed toward idiots!
Because the kids love it.
It was a good show if you eliminate the unnecessary, awful, and inaccurate portion about Giordano Bruno.
We watched Cosmos and enjoyed its beauty and the wonder of the universe it presented, and the compressed calendar of time. But the series wrecked its credibility by presenting an inaccurate view of Giordano Bruno as a martyr for science. Bruno was not a scientist; he was not executed for science. He was a religious philosopher. It was his pantheist beliefs that got him into trouble.
Being so obviously wrong on the history of Bruno, and making him a martyr for science makes the entire series suspect as yet another propaganda tool of the left. We shall see.
Thanks lbryce, and no thanks. :’|
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Obama (and Bill Nye in this picture) on Cosmos Sunday
http://guardianlv.com/2014/03/neil-degrasse-tyson-and-obama-on-cosmos-sunday/
I think Tyson has been given orders to break the hold of religious faith on America’s blacks.
Masses? Are you sure you're in the right place?
Lefty Science bump for later......
Seen on several networks this evening-— missed the appearance of ‘dear reader’ With the high tech special effects we now see daily, the disappointment was high when the remake was seen. Rather than blow your socks off images, what aired it appeared to be the cartoon characters from an Japanese children’s network. Neil deGrasse Tyson is no Carl Sagan, in fact he reminds me of an actor who once played on a police or sit com series Where he has been seen still escapes me. Disappointment -extreme disappointment. Expecting too much?
Oh...... you really know how to hurt a guy..... :-)
Bruno wasn't burned at the stake for science. Perhaps they'll find authoritative the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "Thus, in 1600 there was no official Catholic position on the Copernican system, and it was certainly not a heresy. When Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) was burned at the stake as a heretic, it had nothing to do with his writings in support of Copernican cosmology ..."
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