Christian persecution

Atheistmark said:
Jean Meslier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

He's the first explicit atheist that Wikipedia mentions after the classical period. Before that it was mostly confined to naturalistic pantheists (who were burned at the stake, BTW).
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the wiki article isn't clear....was Meslier burned at the stake or did they use some other heinous method to kill him.....the indication that he died of old age is a bit vague about the means of his execution.....
 
Galileo's championing of Copernicanism was controversial within his lifetime, when a large majority of philosophers and astronomers still subscribed (at least outwardly) to the geocentric view that the Earth is at the centre of the universe. After 1610, when he began publicly supporting the heliocentric view, which placed the Sun at the centre of the universe, he met with bitter opposition from some philosophers and clerics, and two of the latter eventually denounced him to the Roman Inquisition early in 1615. Although he was cleared of any offence at that time, the Catholic Church nevertheless condemned heliocentrism as "false and contrary to Scripture" in February 1616,[10] and Galileo was warned to abandon his support for it—which he promised to do. When he later defended his views in his most famous work, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in 1632, he was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy," forced to recant, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
 
The pope was concerned about Galileo but on Galileos side initially. So Galileo was supposed to present the two world systems equally. He had two people defending each one. But the one that defended the geocentric view was named Simplicio; which is "Simpleton" in latin, and he put the popes words in his mouth.

Man, Galileo was awesome.
 
Socrtease said:
Galileo's championing of Copernicanism was controversial within his lifetime, when a large majority of philosophers and astronomers still subscribed (at least outwardly) to the geocentric view that the Earth is at the centre of the universe. After 1610, when he began publicly supporting the heliocentric view, which placed the Sun at the centre of the universe, he met with bitter opposition from some philosophers and clerics, and two of the latter eventually denounced him to the Roman Inquisition early in 1615. Although he was cleared of any offence at that time, the Catholic Church nevertheless condemned heliocentrism as "false and contrary to Scripture" in February 1616,[10] and Galileo was warned to abandon his support for it—which he promised to do. When he later defended his views in his most famous work, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in 1632, he was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy," forced to recant, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
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dude....we were discussing people being burned at the stake and being fed to lions......Galileo's punishment was
After a period with the friendly Archbishop Piccolomini in Siena, Galileo was allowed to return to his villa at Arcetri near Florence, where he spent the remainder of his life under house arrest. He continued his work on mechanics, and in 1638, he published a scientific book in Holland. His standing would remain questioned at every turn. In March 1641, Vincentio Reinieri, a follower and pupil of Galileo, wrote him at Arcetri that an Inquisitor had recently compelled the author of a book printed at Florence to change the words "most distinguished Galileo" to "Galileo, man of noted name."
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they didn't even make him stop writing.....
 
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Christians deserved to be fed to the lions though, and were only fed for less than a decade. The leniency of their punishment was what was outrageous. I wish Rome could've killed them all.
 
Socrtease said:
Dude...he was FORCED to recant by the Inquistition. Do you know what they did to force people. He was prosecuted for saying the earth was not the center of the universe.
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what are you claiming they did to force him?....to be clearer, what do you have beyond what you make up as clear fiction, to show they did anything to him to force him.....
 
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