(August 24, 2019 at 12:21 am)Belaqua Wrote: 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.
Yeah, I can imagine priests and other Catholics telling themselves fairy tales about Catholic history in order to be able to remain Catholic. Just like when you quote and stick to a guy who wrote how Christopher Hitchens lied when he wrote in "God Is Not Great" that it was the Muslims who introduced Aristotle to Christianity. You also have to lie to yourself, like "Ah, these atheists are so full of lies, they say Christians learned from Muslims about Aristotle." to remain a theist.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
