Power vs. Truth

http://www.pbs.org/empires/ - Giorgio Vasari writes a book to define the Renaissance; Galileo pursues his scientific studies with the support of the Medici family.

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[erererer2]

assasins creed

[Strefanasha]

I have heard that the galileo affair was not about science versus religion. The vatican knew full well that the earth revolved around the sun but though a genius Galileo was in fact insufferably arrogant and made enemies.

if so this matter was about personal politics not doctrine and to set faith against reason because of this is straw man fallacy

[HyperionWins]

Without we italian you were still playing with the mokeys in the mud.

[D0Th3M4Th82]

@erererer2 Or the modern mafia...

[lduych]

Faith is the pinnacle of arrogance, rooted in the cowardice of denying one's ignorance when confronted by mystery.

Faith is the deadliness of all vices, a kind of brain death elevated to the status of virtue, and worse even than war; because with faith there can be no reasoning, no negotiating, no compromise, no peace.

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

~ Albert Einstein

[StevenDrakmage]

@Strefanasha

yeah . I have heard that there was only arrogant and genius Vatican ignore the earth revolved around the sun too.

Nonsense, I can make up 1000 lies about Vatican, but where is the proof?

[Mistermax30]

@elarrebat Science and logic had actually been suppressed for the entire Medieval period. Scientific writings only began to trickle back to Europe toward the end of the Medieval period, when crusaders brought back scientific and historical documents from the Middle East. Christianity by nature is a literalist faith which takes any other modality of thought as a direct affront to the authority of "god". Unfortunately, this way of thinking persists to this day...

[elarrebat]

@KATAERO1 Reality Check. Martin Luther believed that Copernico's ideas about the sun revolving arroung the Earth to be pure nonsense. He wrote about it and condemed them as heresy.

[elarrebat]

@Mistermax30 It was not always like that. The church had been promoting science and logic for the whole Medieval period and it was a great patron of the arts for much of the Renaissance (I am not implying that it did not persecute heresy with cruelty) The real problem at the time was the difficult position of the Church vs the ever growing extend of the Reformation (see my comentary above). They saw themselves as needing to show a strong stand on matters of faith & authority.

[elarrebat]

@louverrone OK, but It is as silly as any other religion