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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Pesmard Flurrmn)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Arndt, Galileo, and Physics
Message-ID: <408@pyuxd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Jan-85 18:34:29 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 28 18:34:29 1985
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> As a physicist, I think I know something about the history of my      
> scientific field.  It is true that what the RC Church did to Galileo
> was reprehensible.  But I find no evidence that their actions would
> have been any different had they been the Church of Ubizmo or the
> Secular State of Rosenland. [BILL PETER]

This sounds distinctly similar to the "discussion" going on between myself
and Paul Dubuc, only more so.  The scenario:  someone "admits" that the
"church" was wrong in admonishing those who prefer reality to assumption,
but then the tables are turned and it is said that "non-religion is no
better!"

Never mind the fact that this person has simply arbitrarily lumped anything
that is NOT religion (including fascistic despotism, which is simply religion
with a different cast---worship the state and the leader just as you used to
worship god, or, if you like, believe that the state/leader is god's chosen
on earth) in one trash heap.  Just because you feel like it.  Never mind that
at all...
-- 
"Pardon me for breathing which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bothered
 to mention it--Oh, God, I'm so depressed."		Rich Rosen  pyuxd!rlr