Was Galileo an Atheist?

"To me the works of nature and of God are miraculous." -Galileo

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[lagerbaer]

Wow. A person who lived in Europe in the pre-enlightenment area was a Christian? Gasp! So what? What does that prove?

[Keys0penD00RS]

Wasn't Galileo forced to hide his findings cause he was threatened by the church.

Just saying its kinda ironic that the same people are using him to promote their propaganda are the same people who threatened to kill him.

[Bayhuntr]

@newspapersuit Funny you bringing up the moon and cheese, because if the faithfuls religion claimed the moon was made of cheese, we could fly them there, shove moon dirt in their mouths and they would spit it out proclaiming it was dirt flavored cheese.

Religion destroys the part of the mind that makes you human.

[Bayhuntr]

@newspapersuit I saw the big bang and just take my word for it, now it's a fact, right?

[Bayhuntr]

@tnafguy ...and then there is today, with all the facts of geology, plate tectonics and genetics filling all those gaps and answering all those questions he had. He was ahead of his time.

[Bayhuntr]

@Tuber77 You're wrong. Atheist say they don 't know if there is a god and there is no evidence to suggest there is one. You're parroting the silly line that atheism is faith based, it isn't.

[Bayhuntr]

Leave it to liars for Jesus. Galileo was a Christian and there are no homosexuals in North Korea.

I Galileo came out as an atheist, he would have more then likely been attested. That makes the claim even more disgusting.

[TheBlitMaster]

@Tuber77 Agnosticism is generally a form of either atheism or deism, which are more alike then young-earth creationism. No atheist I know claims the founding fathers to their beliefs, we all know they're deists, however, they were still closer to atheists then theists, a deist rejects the supernatural, accept recent major scientific advancements, and don't resort to lies such as atheists trying to claim Galileo, when it's obvious to anyone with any world history knowledge that he was Christian.

[TheBlitMaster]

@newspapersuit As an agnostic deist I can personally say that I have no doubts on the theory of natural selection by Charles Darwin being the epitome of theories to explain evolution (it was theorized by most Greek and Taoist Philosophers before the Hebrew Torah was even completed in 450 B.C.) and the diversity of life, however I have doubts that if young earth creationists are ever allowed to use their dishonest techniques in school classrooms that humanity will ever become closer to the truth.

[Tuber77]

Atheist Will claim anyone for there Crusade. Einstein, all the Founding Fathers. Einstein was a agnostic and all the Founding Fathers where Deist. They also recognized the need for religious freedom. Einstein rejected Atheism as Closed Minded (hes kinda right). Even Carl Sagan said "An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid. Im agnostic" (Again hes is right.) .P.s I'm not religious.

[newspapersuit]

The philosopher Hume argues that the only true knowledge one can obtain is gained through experience in the senses. I have experienced God this way...however, I was not there at the big bang, and haven't seen it occur, heard its after effects, touched the matter that was exploding...