(August 23, 2019 at 11:39 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:(August 23, 2019 at 7:08 pm)Belaqua Wrote: 500 years ago, in 1519, in Florence and educated parts of the Vatican, an intellectual Christianity influenced by Ficino and Pico was strongly influential. Though controversial, with opponents, it was nonetheless important in making Christianity even less literalist and more open to non-Christian ideas. Many high-level Christians from this school supported Galileo
"Influenced by strongly influential" and yet they were so "influential" in Vatican that it took Vatican until the year 1992 to admit that Galileo was right. So, good job - or not, you decide.
Here is the best book I know of on Galileo's conflict with the Vatican.
https://www.amazon.com/Galileo-Rome-Rise...oks&sr=1-1
If you wanted to change the subject and discuss that you could.
I brought up the Vatican humanists only to show that, contrary to what has been claimed, Christians 500 years ago were not zealot fundamentalists. There were many kinds of Christians, but to pretend they were a monolithic group of witch-burners is just false.
