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originally posted by: klassless
a reply to: klassless
I don't want to derail my own thread or criticize catholicism but before I authored this threadI had noticed online articles about "pope lucifer god" and I just typed that on Google and, boy, 542,000 results! Unbelievable article titles!
I have no idea why the Vatican is interested in astronomy, especially after it condemned Galileo Galilei for his heretic findings but the Vatican has a telescope in Arizona. How does it support catholicism? So they share the data with universities and rent out the place, etc. You can't go to the observatory for masses, or to talk to god through jesus, or to offer your confession, or to be forgiven for your sins.
They're not looking for aliens 'cause that is being covered with more powerful instruments. And talk about misusing priests!
What's preferred, saving souls or saving data?
www.vovatt.org...
Welcome to the website of Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope
The Vatican Observatory Research Group (VORG) operates the 1.8m Alice P. Lennon Telescope with its Thomas J. Bannan Astrophysics Facility, known together as the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), at the Mount Graham International Observatory (MGIO) in southeastern Arizona where sky conditions are among the best in the world and certainly the Continental United States.
originally posted by: Puppylove
a reply to: NoCorruptionAllowed
The thing you quoted and said people did those things were all natural disasters.
originally posted by: klassless
I have no idea why the Vatican is interested in astronomy, especially after it condemned Galileo Galilei for his heretic findings but the Vatican has a telescope in Arizona.
originally posted by: Puppylove
a reply to: NoCorruptionAllowed
Must be nice being God. You go to work, labor, go to the store, buy food other humans grew and butchered, then take it home, cook it, and before eating thank God for it. But nature, which God created and no one controls but him goes and killed millions, and it's, nature's a bitch.
I'd love it if I got praised for all the good things others do, but getting a pass for anything really bad I do.
Oh and let's ignore that the only reason that person has to labor to feed their family is because God designed us to need nourishment by destroying other living things to survive.
I may be agnostic, but when it comes to most religions I'm effectively an Atheist.
originally posted by: smurfy
originally posted by: klassless
a reply to: klassless
I don't want to derail my own thread or criticize catholicism but before I authored this threadI had noticed online articles about "pope lucifer god" and I just typed that on Google and, boy, 542,000 results! Unbelievable article titles!
I have no idea why the Vatican is interested in astronomy, especially after it condemned Galileo Galilei for his heretic findings but the Vatican has a telescope in Arizona. How does it support catholicism? So they share the data with universities and rent out the place, etc. You can't go to the observatory for masses, or to talk to god through jesus, or to offer your confession, or to be forgiven for your sins.
They're not looking for aliens 'cause that is being covered with more powerful instruments. And talk about misusing priests!
What's preferred, saving souls or saving data?
www.vovatt.org...
Welcome to the website of Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope
The Vatican Observatory Research Group (VORG) operates the 1.8m Alice P. Lennon Telescope with its Thomas J. Bannan Astrophysics Facility, known together as the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), at the Mount Graham International Observatory (MGIO) in southeastern Arizona where sky conditions are among the best in the world and certainly the Continental United States.
You are barking up the wrong tree and make many an assumption on the way. For a start Jesuit priests already studied astronomy, and were pretty expert, and once they got their hands on usable telescopes around the time of Galileo Galilei, it didn't take long, but a few years, to come to some agreement with Galileo, who himself agreed with the much earlier Copernican model of heliocentricity. However the Church in the main was stuffed with Ptolemy's ideas, (and Aristotle for that matter) with a history of conflicting philosophy. So it was all about internal politics really.
As for googling and coming up with something that appears to be congent by number, try that with any old crap, I will take it you will be surprised. You really should do some more 'googling'.
Responding to mounting controversy over theology, astronomy and philosophy, the Roman Inquisition tried Galileo in 1633 and found him "vehemently suspect of heresy", sentencing him to indefinite imprisonment. Galileo was kept under house arrest until his death in 1642.
Jesuit astronomers, experts both in Church teachings, science, and in natural philosophy, were at first skeptical and hostile to the new ideas; however, within a year or two the availability of good telescopes enabled them to repeat the observations.
originally posted by: prevenge
a reply to: klassless
I find your perception of the Vatican and their purpose/potential power severely limited.
The true purpose of said mythology is to act as coded guide to enable mankind from his animalistic autonomic origins towards enlightened limitless experience.
I am more Gnostic than anything and read between the lines in an esoteric mindset.
The EXOTERIC interpretation you seem to have as your only grasp of their religious material, is the true major hurdle in your way of perceiving the larger picture at hand.
Gnostic: Gnostic | Define Gnostic at Dictionary.com
www.dictionary.com/browse/gnostic
4. (initial capital letter) a member of any of certain sects among the early Christians who claimed to have superior knowledge of spiritual matters, and explained the world as created by powers or agencies arising as emanations from the Godhead.
The true purpose of said mythology is to act as coded guide to enable mankind from his animalistic autonomic origins towards enlightened limitless experience.
originally posted by: Orionx2
I did not realize the Pope was worthy of listening to. Religon can explain this crap?!?!?! yea right..: GOD sucks
Rank Death toll (estimate) Event Location Date
1 1,000,000–4,000,000*[1] 1931 China floods China July, August, 1931
2 900,000–2,000,000[2] 1887 Yellow River flood China September, October, 1887
3 830,000[3] 1556 Shaanxi earthquake China January 23, 1556
4 450,000 (242,000–655,000) 1976 Tangshan earthquake China July 28, 1976
5 375,000 (250,000–500,000)[1] 1970 Bhola cyclone East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) November 13, 1970
6 300,000[4] 1839 India cyclone India November 25, 1839
7 300,000[5] 1737 Calcutta cyclone India October 7, 1737
8 280,000 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami Indian Ocean December 26, 2004
9 273,400[6] 1920 Haiyuan earthquake China December 16, 1920
10 250,000–300,000[7] 526 Antioch earthquake Byzantine Empire (now Turkey) May 526
originally posted by: prevenge
a reply to: klassless
I find your perception of the Vatican and their purpose/potential power severely limited.
The true purpose of said mythology is to act as coded guide to enable mankind from his animalistic autonomic origins towards enlightened limitless experience.
I am more Gnostic than anything and read between the lines in an esoteric mindset.
The EXOTERIC interpretation you seem to have as your only grasp of their religious material, is the true major hurdle in your way of perceiving the larger picture at hand.
originally posted by: Specimen
originally posted by: prevenge
a reply to: klassless
I find your perception of the Vatican and their purpose/potential power severely limited.
The true purpose of said mythology is to act as coded guide to enable mankind from his animalistic autonomic origins towards enlightened limitless experience.
I am more Gnostic than anything and read between the lines in an esoteric mindset.
The EXOTERIC interpretation you seem to have as your only grasp of their religious material, is the true major hurdle in your way of perceiving the larger picture at hand.
If their teachings were for that reason, then why do so many people become depraved or bitter from practicing them? Also if Jesus was real, why didn't he teach any of talents or pass them down through the books that are said to be his own words?