Thursday, January 17, 2008

Galileo??

Our story begins in 1633 when Galileo was convicted of heresy for suggesting that the Earth goes around the sun (cheeky bastard). He managed to avoid prison but was sentenced to house arrest. Fast forward to 1992 when Pope John Paul II conceded that the Earth goes around the sun (Good man there). BUT before that in 1990 when the current pope, Ratzinger, was a cardinal he said that he though the Galileo trial was "rational and just", and now... he's in trouble for it. There were plenty of people in 1633 who didn't think the trial was "rational and just" but how you can still think it in 1990 is... stunning.
Do NOT talk smack about Galileo I mean he's up there playing golf with God. He has a direct line...you don't.
Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

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