Help Me Understand

[Thumpalumpacus]

This is an empirically false statement.

Care to expand on that?

Do you not know the history of your own church?

In February 1616, a special Theological Advisory Committee determined that the heliocentric theory contradicts the Catholic faith. With regard to the claim that the sun lies motionless at the center of the world, the committee determined that it is: "Philosophically (i.e., scientifically) foolish and absurd, and is considered official heresy because it explicitly contradicts the meaning of Scripture in many places, in terms of the verbal significance of the words and in terms of the accepted interpretation and understanding of the Church Fathers and the Doctors of Theology."The claim that the earth revolves around the sun was considered only "a mistake of faith."

Source: http://muse.tau.ac.il/museum/galileo/pro...lioce.html

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In March, after the Inquisition's injunction against Galileo, the papal Master of the Sacred Palace, Congregation of the Index, and Pope banned all books and letters advocating the Copernican system, which they called "the false Pythagorean doctrine, altogether contrary to Holy Scripture."[87][88] In 1618 the Holy Office recommended that a modified version of Copernicus' De Revolutionibus be allowed for use in calendric calculations, though the original publication remained forbidden until 1758.[88]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentr...ernicanism

"Infallible church", my ass.

Pardon me while I point and laugh.

Don't get me started on the moral turpitude of the priests who preach to you. "Infallible"! *snort*