People like to pick on Christians becasue of the terrible track record. The Middle Ages, The Crusades, the Inquisition, there's a lot of bad stuff we can look back on.
Yes, we've had our run of mistakes, but you should remember that it was thanks to the efforts of the monks and nuns that preserved much of the knowledge (pre dark ages) that later allowed hummanity to come out of the middle ages and into the Renaissance. I won't even begin to discuss all the contributions the Church made to the Renaissance itself (music, art, architechture, etc.)...
These are the folks that executed Gallileo for heresy.
Actually, had you done your homework, you would know that Galileo was imprisoned by the Church for failing to comply with an earlier decree to which he had agreed to cease teaching the Copernican doctrine. His "imprisonment" was in the confines of the apartment of an Inquisition officer and/or the home of his friends. He died while serving his sentance, not by execution.
If you turn on the news, the current outbreak in the New York area is being examined as a possible attack from Saddam. It has already been mis-identified twice (I forget the first two) and the current diagnosis is a West-Nile like virus.
An Iraqi defector has said that Saddam has been developing just such a virus using the mosquito as a delivery mechanism. FYI - most of my info has been coming from the Fox News Network - I haven't seen anything posted yet to back up these facts.
Even if this were not true, I seem to recall a little Japanese doom cult that tried unleashing some anthrax in a subway a few years back...
The Doctor is Out... (Getting a round of golf in before winter...)
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People like to pick on Christians becasue of the terrible track record. The Middle Ages, The Crusades, the Inquisition, there's a lot of bad stuff we can look back on.
Yes, we've had our run of mistakes, but you should remember that it was thanks to the efforts of the monks and nuns that preserved much of the knowledge (pre dark ages) that later allowed hummanity to come out of the middle ages and into the Renaissance. I won't even begin to discuss all the contributions the Church made to the Renaissance itself (music, art, architechture, etc.)...
These are the folks that executed Gallileo for heresy.
Actually, had you done your homework, you would know that Galileo was imprisoned by the Church for failing to comply with an earlier decree to which he had agreed to cease teaching the Copernican doctrine. His "imprisonment" was in the confines of the apartment of an Inquisition officer and/or the home of his friends. He died while serving his sentance, not by execution.
For a complete document of the Galileo vs Church, go to the following URL:
http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/ 06342b.htm
The Doctor is Out... (Combating the ignornace of the "reasoned")
If you turn on the news, the current outbreak in the New York area is being examined as a possible attack from Saddam. It has already been mis-identified twice (I forget the first two) and the current diagnosis is a West-Nile like virus.
An Iraqi defector has said that Saddam has been developing just such a virus using the mosquito as a delivery mechanism. FYI - most of my info has been coming from the Fox News Network - I haven't seen anything posted yet to back up these facts.
Even if this were not true, I seem to recall a little Japanese doom cult that tried unleashing some anthrax in a subway a few years back...
The Doctor is Out... (Getting a round of golf in before winter...)