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To: BipolarBob
Tell me, did your Church really put Galileo under house arrest and threaten him for asserting the world was round rather than flat as your Church officials taught?

Not as you would have us believe. You're parroting an urban legend which is your modus operandi. You must be a masochist since you enjoy exposing your lack of intelligence on a regular basis.

Do you know that the Catholic Priest Copernicus; whom Luther called a madman, was teaching heliocentric theory 21 years prior to the birth of Galileo? Of course you don't. You probably also don't know that the protestant faculty at Tubingen unanimously condemned Johannes Kepler as a heretic for teaching heliocentrism. You probably also don't know that Kepler had to flee his country and was given refuge by the Jesuits. You probably also don't know that Pope Clement VIII himself gave Kepler a position in a Catholic university teaching astronomy.

If only you knew what you don't know.

212 posted on 05/31/2013 5:58:46 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro can't pass E-verify)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

It seems a significant number of Catholics (not only) contend for geocentrism today.


323 posted on 05/31/2013 8:14:01 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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