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Copernicus Reburied As Hero
CasualFriday writes "Mikolaj Kopernik, a.k.a. Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose findings were condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as heretical, was reburied by Polish priests as a hero on Saturday, nearly 500 years after he was laid to rest in an unmarked grave. On Saturday, his remains were blessed with holy water by some of Poland's highest-ranking clerics before an honor guard ceremoniously carried his coffin through the imposing red brick cathedral and lowered it back into the same spot where part of his skull and other bones were found in 2005."
Then, they laugh at you. Then they win. Then you die. 500 years later, they remove your bones, use you to do a PR stunt, then they bath you with their bullshit water, and pretend nothing happened.
Oh, I hate theists a little bit more every day.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
Why the sprinkle with holy water? What if after the way he was treated he died with nothing but contempt for the Church?
Im all in favor of reburying him as a hero, Im all in favor of an apology (despite its not likely he is able to hear nor accept/reject it due to the account of him being dead and all).
The moral thing the Catholic Church should do is issue an official apology to the scientific community as a whole for its actions, against Copernicus, Galilao, Darwin and every other bright mind they condemned that ended up being right (or laying the groundwork for other breakthroughs).
But of course its not in their nature, after all it's too busy condemning steam cell research and looking for ways to condemn synthetic organisms and preaching that condoms are evil (I also heard one preist say he's against finding a cure/treatment for AIDS as it would promote sexual immorality.)
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I'm glad the church recognizes the value of bleeding-edge Renaissance science. Maybe next year they will find out the importance of electricity, birth control, or logic.
How about the Theory of the Big Bang? It was a Belgian priest who first formalized that.
Those factual details don't matter for the avant garde bigots in /. They like to pretend they are better than the fundamentalist bible fruit cakes, but by generalizing shit to any form of religion, they just show they are as imbecile and ignorant and as fundamentalist as the bible nuts... they just so happen to sit on the other side of the bigot spectrum.