Europa & the Galileo Myth: The Pope Delusion
by Hatim Salih – April 8, 2007
The Washington Post
As Europe celebrates the half-century of the Treaty of Rome, the founding document of the EU, Pope Benedict XVI’s battle against science, Islam and cultural pluralism, threatens to turn the European clock back to a pre-Enlightenment era…
On the centenary of Einstein’s birth, an impassioned John Paul II expressed his hope before the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Rome that the Church will revisit the infamous Galileo case...
…Remarkably, in a speech delivered at Parma, Italy, in March 1990, the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, went so far as to state that "At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just."
A critique of a critique
In 1616, the Galileo-supported heliocentric model of the universe was rejected by the Church on the grounds that Galileo was unable to produce conclusive evidence that the Earth orbited around the Sun. At the same time, he was prohibited from conducting any further research to seek such evidence. While the aim of the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 was to force the Muslims and Jews of Spain to abandon their religious convictions, the aim of the Roman Inquisition in 1633 was to force Galileo to abandon his scientific convictions. Galileo, who remained a sincere Christian, was subsequently sentenced to house arrest for life, and his books were banned.
“Not to act in accordance with reason is contrary to God's nature.” This is the decisive statement in the alleged argument of Emperor Manuel II against violent conversion, as pointed out by Pope Benedict XVI in his much-publicised Regensburg speech. Given his apparent approval of Galileo’s persecution, we are compelled to question the Pope’s very notion of “reason,” not to mention that of “justice.”
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Vatican Science Panel Told By Pope [John Paul II]: Galileo Was RightNovember 1, 1992 – The New York Times
Galileo Condemned As A Heretic - Misinterpretations Of The Bible - Homosexuality? Natural Law? Benedict XVI? Kids Are Being Hurt!!!
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By Fr. Marty Kurylowicz
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January 15, 2008
Cable News Network (CNN)
AUSCHWITZ -- CHRISTMAS 2008 -- A flashback far more severe than in --- BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN – December 26, 2008 – Fr. Marty Kurylowicz
Sexual orientation is less about sex and more about love, being one with another human being - Attachment Theory - LOVE & RELIGION - Gay Marriage
Hate Crime Bill vs Attacks But NO FACTS -> Fear And Ignorance Of
The Blind Leading The Blind
October 27, 2009 – Fr. Marty Kurylowicz
Prayers For BobbyDr. Caitlin Ryan - Family Acceptance Project™
"Anybody and Everybody"
by Susan Polis Schutz
Side by Side LGBT International Film Festival
The Vatican thirst for power
divides Christianity and damages Catholicism
Hans Kung - guardian.co.uk – November 4, 2009
Roman Catholic - hierarchy child sexual abuse “cover-ups” ordered by Benedict XVI to avoid public outrage & criminal charges -
falsely accused gay priests - WATERGATE?
“Ratzinger, Hurley, Maida & Accomplices - Kids Are Being Hurt!!!
(Sequential Order of Reactions)” *** Homeless in Canton *** Holocaust Similarities - Child Sexual Abuse Kept Secret For Decades Out Of Public View
Pope condemns gay equality laws ahead of first UK visit
Riazat Butt - guardian.co.uk,
February 1, 2010
Pope Blasts U.K. Anti-Discrimination Laws CBS NEWS
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February 6, 2010
…“the Vatican has accepted no responsibility for its role in facilitating the sexual abuse of children,”
By ROBERT MACKEY
New York Times News
February 16, 2010
Italian Catholic scandal draws in Pope Benedict
By NICOLE WINFIELD
AP – abc NEWS/International
February 9, 2010
Pope hits out at 'unjust and offensive' accusations over Boffo resignation
Richard Owen in Rome - Times Online
February 9, 2010
Commentary: what lies behind
Vatican's denial of involvement in Boffo affair?
Priest says he was pressurised into taking blame for pope
by Paddy Agnew, Derek Scally and Patsy McGarry
The Irish Times
Priest says he was bullied into taking fall for Pope in abuse scandalThe Local
Germany’s News
Vatican Asking For Male Prostitutes
“Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.”
Though you drive Nature out with a pitchfork,
she will still find her way back.
Hurricane Katrina - Nancy Pelosi - Washington, DC – 2005 &
Accountability Benedict XVI Child Sexual Abuse
Who Can Mock This Church?
By Nicholas D. Kristof – The New York Times
Gay Marriage -> Restores - “Hope of Love”
To Children In Early Childhood
Gay Marriage - “SEPARATION BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE” Does Not Give Churches Or Benedict XVI
The Freedom To Abuse Children or Adults.
July 2010 - By Fr. Marty Kurylowicz
NO EVIDENCE SUPPORTS THESE [homosexual] STEREOTYPES
- Judge Vaughn Walker Ruling - California Prop 8. August 4, 2010
Related Links:
[Unsubstantiated] --- RELIGIOUS BELIEFS that gay and lesbian relationships are SINFUL or INFERIOR to heterosexual relationships
HARM gays and lesbians.
Judge Vaughn Walker Ruling - California Prop 8. August 4, 2010
STEREOTYPES and MISINFORMATION have resulted
in social and legal disadvantages for gays and lesbians.
Judge Vaughn Walker Ruling - California Prop 8. August 4, 2010
California - Prop 8 judgment, August 4, 2010 - Gay marriage
“Religious beliefs that gay and lesbian relationships are sinful or inferior to heterosexual relationships harm gays and lesbians.”
Judge Vaughn Walker
On Prop 8, it's the evidence, stupid
By Lisa Bloom - CNN.com
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the Health and Well-being of Children – 2006
American Medical Association
Policy Regarding Sexual Orientation
GLBT Advisory Committee
Children with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Parents
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
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“A Great Day in the Struggle for Human Rights”
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2005
Resolution on Sexual Orientation and Marriage - Research Summary
American Psychological Association
2004
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Los Angeles Times
"No sensible person can imagine that the
sexes differ in matters of love
as they do in matters of clothing.
The intelligent lover of beauty will be attracted to beauty in whichever
gender he finds it."
Plutarch
“Someday, maybe, there will exist
a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction
that the most deadly of all possible sins
is the mutilation of a child’s spirit.”
Erik Erikson
…whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
Matthew 18:6
Important note: No disrespect meant to Pope Benedict XVI or the hierarchy, the one and only concern is the safety and well-being of children.
Kids Are Being Hurt !!!
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Governor McGreevey's New Clothes
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Vatican Asking For Male Prostitutes
“Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.”
Though you drive Nature out
with a pitchfork,
she will still find her way back.
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Without Being Homophobic?
Carlos A. Ball
Professor of Law at Rutgers University
August 24, 2010 – Huffington Post
Photo
The Closet: Psychological Issues of Being In and Coming Out
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October 1, 2004
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The Atlantic
photo
The Psychology of the Closeted Individual and Coming Out – 2007
by Jack Drescher, M.D.
The Significance of Brokeback Mountainby Ralph Roughton
Self Psychology News – Fall 2007
Auschwitz - Christmas 2008A flashback far more severe than
in Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain
Homophobia- American Psychoanalytic Foundation Public Forum
Ralph Roughton, M.D. 1999
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Karl Rove… "had been working with Republicans to make sure that anti-gay initiatives and referenda would appear on November ballots in 2004 and 2006 to help Republicans."
Ken Mehlman
August 25, 2010
The Atlantic
Bush Campaign Chief and Former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman:
I'm Gay – by Marc Ambinder - The Atlantic
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Prop 8 ruled unconstitutional as lacking rational basis
Nan Hunter - Professor, Georgetown Law,
Washington, DC
hunter of justice
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by Geoffrey R. Stone
law professor at the University of Chicago
Chicago Tribune
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