The Church Honors Copernicus
Posted on: May 25, 2010 - 11:11am
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The Church Honors Copernicus
only about 500 years too late, fucking assholes
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Huh? What?
He was a church official and only published his thought on astronomy on his death bed. Then he was buried right in the cathedral where he served. After that, it took a few decades for his work to become in any way controversial. For the most part, nobody noticed the matter when it was current.
What actually happened was that the location of his grave was lost to the records and it was only found a couple of years ago. Since then, what bits we had of his body were in a lab being DNA sequenced, having his face forensically reconstructed and so on. Now that we are done with all of that, he needs to be reburied. This time with a proper grave marker.
However, unlike Galileo, Copernicus was never screwed over by the church.
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And so what if they did? What "the church" says and does is usually completely irrelevent.
Actually what the church does is relevant, not that it should be. They tell people not to wear condoms or use birth control and the world ends up with more unwanted babies and more sexually transmitted diseases. And for thousands of years scared the shit out of their followers making science out to be evil.
I would say that they are irrelevant in other ways. The current Pope once gave a speech about "good driving habits" as if driving schools couldn't exist without Jebus.
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Well, ok, you're right about that. Yes, sometimes the church is relevant, even though it shouldn't be. However, what I was actually trying to say was that when the church does completely symbolic shit like "honoring" Copernicus or apologizing about Galileo, then that crap is irrelevant, and no one should give a shit.