Posted on 05/18/2009 9:12:37 PM PDT by bdeaner
Not worked up, thankful. Thankful that the church does not have the ability to charge people for religious crimes any longer.
Read the history of that age. The Pope was also the King of the Papal States. They weren't strictly religious figures in those days. They were also monarchs like any other (some good some bad). They had all the powers that other Kings in Europe had over their territories. As such, yes, the Pope could have people arrested.
Bad instruments was what I've always thought.
I was taught as a child that Galileo said that the Earth and other planets revolved around the Sun...
Making the Sun the center of the Universe...
Since the Catholic Church taught that the Earth was the center of the Universe, Galileo was ordered to recant his scientific beliefs...
When he would not he was excommunicated...
Aristotle was not a pagan!
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Well, Aristotle was not a Jew, and he lived 300 years before Christianity...
So what would you call him ???
TN:
That is an amazing over-simplification.
It’s quite remarkable. At my seminary a renowned NT professor went off on how the Church thought and taught the world was flat, when Dante and Chaucer alone suffice to show that’s just not so.
IOW, a lot of anti-Catholicism combined with intellectual laziness led to some severe errors in teaching the history of Galileo and other thought of the so-called “Dark Ages”.
MD, the distance to some of the closest stars is 500,000 times the distance to the Sun. at the time, they never imagined the stars could be so distant. It never occurred to anyone.
So parallax could not be observed until much later, with more powerful and accurate telescopes. And yet, 400 years later, most of these mouthy people still know nothing about planetary physics, even with all the advantages of modern science.
they really aren’t interested in science.
A non-Judeo-Christian monotheist?
if the agenda is to do more population planning (abortion clinics in Africa) and the major obstacle is the Catholic Church, then it is logical to continue the propaganda against the Church.
After all, they are “trying to save the planet!” I doubt the anti-Church posters here are pro-aborts, but you never know.
What Bruno proclaimed was heresy: a belief contrary to the authentic Catholic belief, yet promulgated as if it were genuinely Catholic belief, with authority of a priest.
He had multiple opportunities to recant during his trial; he maintained, however, that the core of his philosophical and theological views was Catholic.
The trial of Bruno has nothing to do with science; it was a trial of a provable heretic for heresy. That the civil authority would punish heretics at a stake is unfortunate, but the Church cannot be asked to condone fraud.
Yeah. I was trying to figure out what would be the angles of an isosceles triangle 186,000,000 miles across the base and 4 light years along the two equal sides.
My conclusion, unencumbered by the thought process: That’s a mighty small angle.
He was never excommunicated. His punishment was pennance and house arrest, in a very villa where he continued his scientifc work and writing until his death nine years later at the ripe old age of 77.
Does heresy run in families?
Some words of Jesus can be interpreted that way. The brood of vipers, and such.
A biased if not false set of facts about Galileo.
Sure she can. The Church has canon laws and defined dogmas and violations of either can be adjudicated now as it always has been. Which is a very good thing.
Adjudicated in what manner? Who falls under their jurisdiction?
Depending on the issue, different legal venues exist, including the Congregation of the Doctrines of the Faith, wich is formerly known as the Holy Inquisition.
Any Catholic is subject to canon laws.
If someone is excommunicated from the church and they still show up, they would be prosecuted under trespassing laws, not religious laws.
MadDawg, you’re a schmart guy. I guess we just hit your sweet spot. Church History - Planetary Physics - Politics. An unlikely trilogy.
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