I Read The News Today, Oh Boy
About a lucky man who made the grade.
And though the news was rather sad – well, I just had to laugh….
Astronomer Copernicus Reburied As Hero In Poland (Vanessa Gera/The Associated Press; May 22)
FROMBORK, Poland: Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose findings were condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as heretical, was reburied by Polish priests [...]
The Good Old Days
Tired of living in a world full of religion-inspired hate and violence?
Well, you can always try to take refuge in the past.
Ah, yes – those wonderful days before gOd was kicked out of the classroom and sex ed was invited in.
Let’s go visit it now!
Professor Explores Bigotry Behind 1921 Murder Of Priest (Mike Curtin/The Columbus [...]
Another Holy Fraud?
Here’s a little something that I first read about a week ago:
“Dubious miracles increased with the competition for pilgrims. The Rood of Boxley, a life-size figure of Christ on the Cross that actually shed tears, rolled its eyes, and foamed at the mouth, was finally discovered to contain ‘certain engines and old wires with rotten [...]
Abusing History
As a student of history it particularly pains me to see history distorted and abused to justify some agenda. Ann Coulter is abusive in many respects, and history is certainly no exception. Coulter has recently come under fire from Canadians for reasons that I need not go into here. Suffice it to say I watched [...]
Religion & Art
Regular readers might know that one of my pet peeves is the way theists tend to attribute so much of what’s good to gOd and religion while excusing gOd and religion from any responsibility for anything bad.
To quote Oumkheyr once again, “I really believe that France is scared of Muslims, which is the motivation for [...]
More From Richard Carrier
Has anyone read this yet?
I just learned about it today.
Sounds yummy! :-)
Not the Impossible Faith (Richard Carrier; 456 pages; Feb 2009)
Dr. Richard Carrier is an expert in the history of the ancient world and a critic of Christian attempts to distort history in defense of their faith. Not the Impossible Faith is a tour de [...]
Darwin & Eugenics
Charles Darwin’s relationship with “eugenics” (meaning well born) is often misunderstood or mischaracterized. The term itself was invented and first fully articulated by Sir Francis Galton – Darwin’s cousin – in 1883 (a year after Darwin died). Galton defined it as “the study of all agencies under human control which can improve or impair the [...]
The Good Old Days (2)
A few more glimpses of the 20th century, courtesy “Curious Moments: Archive of the Century” (Hendrick Neubauer/Das Fotoarchiv; published by Konemann; 2006):
Galileo & The Church (2): Copernicus
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Both John Draper and Andrew Dickson White used the Galileo Affair as one of their many examples of the religious oppression of scientific progress. However, lingering in the background to this affair is Copernicus and his monumental work, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, which revived the heliocentric model [...]
Galileo & The Church (1): The Conflict Thesis
It would not be unreasonable to observe that the figure of Galileo Galilei has emerged as the emblematic example of the conflict between science and religion. Galileo was put on trial in 1633 by the Roman Catholic Inquisition for advancing a heliocentric cosmology, in contradiction to the sacred scriptures, found guilty, and placed under house [...]
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