Quote Originally Posted by mklotz View Post
No worries, no incense here.

The church has finally admitted that 'it does move'*, only a few centuries too late. Perhaps it was for the best. It's hopefully made them sensitive to the fact that religion has no business dispensing scientific "truth".

Despite their failure at astronomy, the church has harbored some accomplished scientists...

Gregor Mendel, the father of modern genetics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel

Georges Lemaître, physicist, responsible for the concept of the expanding universe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre


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As Galileo was being taken away to house arrest by the inquisition, it's rumored he muttered, "And yet, it moves" referring to his assurance that the earth revolves around the sun and not vice versa as the church ordained.
My grandmother said that all churches and all religions were a bunch of heathens except for the one she went to, and she had her doubts about our Chicken eating preacher at times, however that didn't stop her from serving fried chicken every sunday knowing he would be joining for dinner