[Regulator]

Ha Ha

Whatta laff

This thread devolves into a bunch of Catolico apologists regurgitating papal propaganda about how “The Church” (always capitalized) was Really Right and Galileo was just a confused old coot.

Cancel The Enlightenment! Let’s go back to Papal Infallibility and Monarchs picked by the Divine Right of Kings!

And just remember, the Inquisition was really a gentle little affair, the massacres of the Albigensians and the Huguenots was No Big Deal, and secretly, Jefferson was the Pope’s Emissary!!

Sorry. Made the last one up. But since the “Nation of Immigrants” crowd here makes crap up out of whole cloth, why can’t I?

Go home to Italy. Lotsa nice villas in Tuscany for cheap.

[CharlesOConnell]

There are only 2 final choices, my will (C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce in which the denizens of hell live separately & continually move further apart from one another), or Thy will. Most of the Enlightenment chose "my will", some medieval clod-hoppers chose "Thy will".

[chajin]

the Inquisition was really a gentle little affair

That no one ever expected...