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Author: JacksSmirkingRevenge (21148 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 4:57 pm on Mar 26, 2009

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I just read something I didn't know before. Four years after Galileo was sentenced to indefinite incarceration, he lost his eye sight. Due to general poor health and the blindness development, he petitioned the Church to be released from his sentence. They declined his request. He spent the rest of his life confined to his residence.

Galileo, in failing health for several years, loses his eyesight. He petitions the Inquisition to be freed for medical reasons. His request is denied but in March the Inquisition gives Galileo permission to attend religious services on holidays.

Link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/galileo/life.html

"We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere."

Replies to: "Addendum:"

22nd-most important catholic figure in No. Indiana to boycott commencement [LINK] - Chris94 - 6:25pm 3/25/09 (58) [View All]
- I always think of the Monty Python song "Every Sperm is Sacred" when the stem cell argument starts [LINK] - ND_in_ATL - 11:10pm 3/25/09
- Interesting how you don't mock Islamic believers like you do Catholics. [NT] - Killshot - 10:12pm 3/25/09
  - And Jewish people have a green light to make jokes about Jewish people - Chris94 - 11:27pm 3/25/09
    - I thought you were a devout follower of Obama, the great uniter, no? - TheIrishHammer - 4:51am 3/26/09
  - Why mock pagans they're already going to hell? - Hibakusha - 11:02pm 3/25/09
- Are you aware that adult stem cells work better than embryo stem cells? - StoneFingers - 9:25pm 3/25/09
  - This is an anti-stem cell guy disagreeing. [NT] [LINK] - NDFaninNJ - 10:31am 3/26/09
    - Where do you see a disagreement? - StoneFingers - 11:22am 3/26/09
      - Actually, he said "could" work, not "can" work. [NT] - NDFaninNJ - 11:36am 3/26/09
  - Are you aware that, if they did, there would be no issue? - Chris94 - 11:25pm 3/25/09
    - Astounding - StoneFingers - 11:38pm 3/25/09
  - Depends on a case by case basis - ND_in_ATL - 11:00pm 3/25/09
    - That doesn't seem to be true anymore [LINK] - StoneFingers - 11:26pm 3/25/09
- Yeah, once you decide to rip a child from mom's womb, you gotta be considerate of others... [NT] - GOAT - 7:05pm 3/25/09
- It's time to embrace the fact that you and Mac, to name a couple, are not Catholic. - TheIrishHammer - 6:37pm 3/25/09
  - I guess we'll have plenty of time to work out who is right and wrong in Purgatory...See you there! [NT] - ND_in_ATL - 11:01pm 3/25/09
    - I am destined to sit on the right hand of the Father........ - TheIrishHammer - 4:52am 3/26/09
    - I hear the board ops there.... - ripperduck - 2:11am 3/26/09
    - I love Purgatory...idiot Prods think it doesn't exist. I laugh at them while I count my Indulgences! [NT] - Hibakusha - 11:04pm 3/25/09
- The opposition to stem cell research is comically ridiculous. It is actually anti-life. - NDFaninNJ - 6:32pm 3/25/09
  - Ridiculous assertion...The Church absolutely does not want to waste embryos... - GOAT - 6:58pm 3/25/09
    - Well, the IVF process creates extra embryos and preventing stem cell research wastes them - NDFaninNJ - 7:04pm 3/25/09
      - So don't waste them in the first place, right?... - GOAT - 7:09pm 3/25/09
        So, everyone that goes through IVF should have 8 kids, pick one and give the rest away? - NDFaninNJ - 7:18pm 3/25/09
        No, they should not participate in IVF at all. - SouthCarolinaIrish - 8:27pm 3/25/09
        This is perhaps the stupidest church stance since Galileo - Chris94 - 11:29pm 3/25/09
        Re: This is perhaps the stupidest church stance since Galileo - SouthCarolinaIrish - 9:41am 3/26/09
        The concept of "believing" that which you don't believe is ridiculous. - NDFaninNJ - 10:03am 3/26/09
        It's called faith. [NT] - SouthCarolinaIrish - 1:51pm 3/26/09
        
        It's called faith. [NT] - SouthCarolinaIrish - 1:51pm 3/26/09
        
        Galileo's harshest critics were his fellow scientists... - GOAT - 12:18am 3/26/09
        Seriously? - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 7:44am 3/26/09
        Absolutely... - GOAT - 9:26am 3/26/09
        You are insane - McSweeney - 1:59pm 3/26/09
        Gallileo taught as fact that the Sun was the Center of the Universe... - GOAT - 4:43pm 3/26/09
        
        Two things: - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 9:40am 3/26/09
        Re: Two things: - GOAT - 10:15am 3/26/09
        Uh . . . what? - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 12:47pm 3/26/09
        Sorry this took so long...work beckoned... - GOAT - 3:30pm 3/26/09
        Wrong. [LINK] - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 4:45pm 3/26/09
        Wrong yerself...my issue was that most of his peers thought he was fulla shit... - GOAT - 5:06pm 3/26/09
        Bullshit. - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 5:12pm 3/26/09
        
        Addendum: [LINK] - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 4:57pm 3/26/09
        Wow, that's a revelation...which proves exactly what?... - GOAT - 5:02pm 3/26/09
        When have I ever stated "he was not properly cared for?" - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 5:08pm 3/26/09
        Galileo was not convicted of "heresy" and that is FACT... - GOAT - 5:25pm 3/26/09
        More bullshit. Or should I say goatshit. - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 5:53pm 3/26/09
        Such vulgarity suggests that you are losing all sense of objectivity... - GOAT - 12:33am 3/27/09
        More bullshit. It's all you got. - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 7:26am 3/27/09
        Oh, I don't have to disprove yer Seamus theory... - GOAT - 10:43am 3/27/09
        Not surprised. It's no more idiotic than your statement that scientists pushed for Galileo's death [NT] - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 5:29pm 3/27/09
        Oh, don't sell yerself short, your statement is way more idiotic... - GOAT - 6:11pm 3/27/09
        
        Atomic wedgie... - MAS - 8:16am 3/26/09
        That sounds like Hell. [IMAGE] - JacksSmirkingRevenge - 8:29am 3/26/09
        
        Well get IVF banned, and then we can talk about banning stem cell research - ND_in_ATL - 11:03pm 3/25/09
        This is the exact right result. For now, it is inexcusable (and anti-life) to not use the stem cells [NT] - NDFaninNJ - 9:43am 3/26/09
        
        If interested, see reply to Chris94 above.* [NT] - SouthCarolinaIrish - 9:43am 3/26/09
        
        Yes...let's make sure the embryo is not considered human life...no awful outcome there... - GOAT - 7:33pm 3/25/09