RE: Cutting the head off Medusa
June 14, 2012 at 10:25 am
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2012 at 10:34 am by Brian37.)
Quote:1614, Galileo felt compelled to answer the charge that this "new science" was contrary to certain Scripture passages.
So the bible is to blame for the wrongful attack on him and only the supporters of that book would have attacked him, so if it was not the church then who? Churches are made up of club members. So again you have an example of the gang members saying "my boss isn't doing this, we are doing it on behalf of our boss".
It seems that line implies if Galileo had simply kept it to himself nothing would have happened to him. Another example of blaming the victim.
No they were not on his side otherwise they would have stuck up for him. They jailed him to maintain power to keep the masses from taking their heads off. Complete and utter cowardice.
And that also brings up a broader topic on all holy books in general.
If there were no book to fight over either way, this wouldn't have happened.
But since holy books do exist and can be read to justify a position, it should give everyone all the more reason to question it's credibility.
Holy books are weapons and must always be treated as such.
