i want to read facts about how galileo and other scientist suffered... i was very curious after reading angels and demons.. can abyone please suggest a good book? i want further readings.. thanks...
2007-02-03 23:34:55 · 9 answers · asked by lia 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, try "Magna crimen", it`s about the killings done by Roman catholic church during World War II. Or "Maleus maleficorum", it`s a manual for killing witches written by one of the Inquisitors.
2007-02-03 23:55:21 · answer #1 · answered by Romentari 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Galileo was killed by the Catholic Church? That's news to me -- especially since history tells us that Galileo died at a ripe old age of natural causes.
Where in the world do you get the idea that "scientists suffered" at the hands of the Catholic Church?
Please. Without the patronage and support of the Catholic Church, there would have been no science!
Ever hear of Johannes Kepler? He was an astronomer who lives around the time of Galileo. His astronomical formulas and equations are still used by NASA today.
He was from Germany, which in his time was dominated by Protestants. He was forced to flee that country by the religious authorities because of his scientific ideas.
And where did he flee to? He fled to a predominantly Catholic country -- Italy -- and it was there that his scientific ideas flourished.
I cannot suggest a book which discusses "killings and mistreatment of scientists" by the Catholic Church -- because if such a book even exists, it can hardly be considered reliable.
Such a book, if it even exists, would be based on anti-Catholic sentiments rather than fact.
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2007-02-03 23:53:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ok. As said muchly during the DaVinci Code questions. Read the category of the book. Is it Fiction or nonfiction?
Fiction.
That means what is contained within is to be taken with a grain of salt.
It was not considered uncommon that new ideas during certain periods of history were considered heretical, as they would debase the power of the church's authority. Especially considering as they were the earthly agents of god, that they too were supposedly infallible and any evidence to the contrary was like it was calling god a liar.
However time has proven that the church and those who work for it are mortal. Science has lived on.
2007-02-04 04:28:31 · answer #3 · answered by guhralfromhell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Focus your research on how the bible came to exist.
In the early days of Christianity the Romans thought they would simply stomp it out by killing all of the Christians. Problem is the Christians believed in an Unconditionally loving God who would never judge anyone for any reason.
They did not fear death in the least because they saw the return to the embrace of their unconditionally loving God as a wonderful thing, not something to be feared. People who saw this flocked to Christianity. The more Christians the Romans killed the more converts there were.
The Romans soon realized that fear was not a tactic that worked on someone who was not afraid of death. To the Christians going home to God was a good thing, not something to be afraid of.
It became obvious to the Romans that the unconditionally loving God was the enemy that needed to be killed if they were to succeed.
They came up with a plan that was brilliant. The emperor Constantine pretended to convert. He of course then became the leader of the Christians because after all he was the emperor.
One of the first tasks he set out to do was to create a fixed set of beliefs that all of the Christians could be united under. A book was needed that could hold the truth for all Christians. Through careful selection of scripture a Judgmental-punishing version of God was created in this book to replace the god that Jesus had told of.
Many Christians were unhappy with this judgmental God replacing the real unconditionally loving God Jesus had taught them about. These true believers in the words of Jesus were branded as heretics. Much effort was then put into stamping out the heresy. The new Christians who believed in the judgmental punishing roman version of God were no longer persecuted.
The new roman universal or Catholic Church persecuted only the heretics who believed in the God that Jesus had taught about.
Anyone teaching the heresy about the unconditionally loving God that Jesus taught about was warned. If they persisted they were tried as heretics and killed if they would not recant. Most would not do this because they had no fear of meeting the unconditionally loving God the Jesus told of.
The rest is history.
This is how the judgmental punishing God trumped the unconditionally loving God and Rome rewrote Jesus' version of God with a God that People would not be so quick to want to go home to.
This new scary version of God was just what the Romans needed to keep people in line.
Love and blessings Don
2007-02-04 00:21:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try:
+ The Real Inquisition, By Thomas F. Madden, National Review (2004) http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/madden200406181026.asp
+ Inquisition by Edward Peters (1988)
+ The Spanish Inquisition by Henry Kamen (1997)
Be very careful about believing anything you read in a book of fiction. Mr Brown invents theories and twists facts to make a good suspenseful book. Some of his lies and half truths in the Da Vinci Code are described at this website: http://www.jesusdecoded.com
With love in Christ.
2007-02-04 15:08:08 · answer #5 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Geez, can`t people leave the Catholic church alone,what about a book that describes how protestants killed others?
2007-02-03 23:38:35 · answer #6 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you can read the book
Warriors of God - By James Reston, Jr.
warriorsofgod.com
it is about the crusades.
God bless
2007-02-04 00:27:58 · answer #7 · answered by Temsah 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have the names of two authors, but not the books.
A. W. Tozer
Dr. Boettner
2007-02-04 14:05:45 · answer #8 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Foxe's book of martyrs.
2007-02-03 23:55:40 · answer #9 · answered by Beng T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋